Kimimila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kee-MEE-mee-lah
- Origin
- Native American
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Kimimila is a girls' name of Native American origin, meaning “butterfly”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Kimimila mean?
Native American: Lakota word
“butterfly”
Kimimila is the Lakota word for butterfly.
Is Kimimila a girl's or a boy's name?
Kimimila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kimimila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Kimimila, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
2025 had fewer girls named Kimimila than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Kimimila in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kimimila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Names like Kimimila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nyomi, Kayomi, Zuri, Kamora, Chiara, Kobi, Demi, Amora, Kyomi, Chizaram, Niomi, Kimora
More Native American names
Dakota, Tallulah, Nayeli, Winona, Kenai, Cree, Xochitl, Xitlali, Citlali, Alaska, Talulah, Sequoia, Denali, Tennessee, Dakoda, Lakota
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kimimila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kimimila, updated 20 October 2026.