Meaning not yet researched.
Kimball: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #911 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #911 in 1954; #11,405 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kimball in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,405 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #911.
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Kimball: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #911 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 66 (1954).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kimball, making it the 11,405th most common boys’ name of the year, down 5,061 places from #6,344 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 14 boys named Kimball in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #911, reached in 1954. That year also had the most boys given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #6,899 in 2015 and #1,329 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimball in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 2,148 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 535 babies named Kimball.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 114 US boys were named Kimball; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kimbal, Kimbel and Kimbell are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kimbal (61), Kimbel (11), Kimbell (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kimball in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,405 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,344 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,294 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #7,053 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,307 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #9,178 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,462 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #5,929 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,344 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,678 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,899 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,948 | 21 | #4,629 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,549 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,391 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,917 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,453 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,508 | 23 | #4,367 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #3,993 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,849 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,309 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #3,998 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,991 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,207 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,858 | 26 | #3,411 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,706 | 27 | #3,280 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,110 | 18 | #4,307 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,536 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,558 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,819 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,766 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,975 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,536 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,571 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,396 | 13 | #4,466 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,758 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,839 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,402 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,619 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,806 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,680 |
| 1985 | — | — | 20 | #2,557 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,394 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,535 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,652 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,139 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,183 |
| 1979 | — | — | 17 | #2,723 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,998 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,122 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,895 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,703 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,160 | 13 | #2,880 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,336 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,721 | 19 | #2,124 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,922 | 17 | #2,330 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,451 |
| 1969 | — | — | 19 | #1,947 |
| 1968 | — | — | 23 | #1,667 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,428 |
| 1966 | — | — | 33 | #1,333 |
| 1965 | — | — | 35 | #1,307 |
| 1964 | — | — | 36 | #1,322 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,595 | 26 | #1,564 |
| 1962 | — | — | 29 | #1,465 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,082 | 31 | #1,453 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,610 | 43 | #1,199 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,467 | 28 | #1,515 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,346 | 37 | #1,272 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,872 | 44 | #1,176 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,062 | 51 | #1,062 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,285 | 55 | #1,020 |
| 1954 | — | — | 66 | #911 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,360 | 53 | #993 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,207 | 57 | #949 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,605 | 48 | #1,031 |
| 1950 | — | — | 30 | #1,329 |
| 1949 | — | — | 29 | #1,365 |
| 1948 | — | — | 21 | #1,635 |
| 1947 | — | — | 29 | #1,380 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,789 |
| 1945 | — | — | 20 | #1,515 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,557 |
| 1943 | — | — | 15 | #1,952 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,209 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,269 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,249 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,538 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,359 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,347 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,461 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,294 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,294 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,036 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,970 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,973 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,121 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,178 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,402 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,712 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,285 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,262 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,795 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,769 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,645 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,237 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,520 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).