Meaning not yet researched.
Kimberley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #166 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #166 in 1967; #5,828 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kimberley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,828 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #166.
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Kimberley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #166 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 2,003 (1967).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Kimberley, making it the 5,828th most common girls’ name of the year, down 741 places from #5,087 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 26 girls named Kimberley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #166, reached in 1967. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,003. For comparison, it was #3,564 in 2015 and #1,196 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimberley in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 5 babies. In all, 38,278 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 16,344 babies named Kimberley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 257 US girls were named Kimberley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kimberly (850,666 babies since 1880), Kimberlee (17,690 babies since 1880), Kimberli (3,942 babies since 1880) and Kimmie (1,409 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kymberlee are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kim, Kimberli and Kimberly.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kymberlee (875).
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.
Kimberley is listed as a nickname for Kimberly.
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 | 21 | #5,828 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,087 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,070 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,860 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,667 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,248 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,255 | — | — |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2006 | 93 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1997 | 163 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1996 | 190 | #992 | — | — |
| 1995 | 185 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1994 | 213 | #901 | — | — |
| 1993 | 225 | #861 | — | — |
| 1992 | 233 | #855 | — | — |
| 1991 | 290 | #720 | — | — |
| 1990 | 324 | #666 | — | — |
| 1989 | 295 | #685 | — | — |
| 1988 | 284 | #681 | — | — |
| 1987 | 294 | #642 | — | — |
| 1986 | 366 | #555 | — | — |
| 1985 | 344 | #569 | — | — |
| 1984 | 327 | #566 | — | — |
| 1983 | 387 | #503 | — | — |
| 1982 | 446 | #471 | — | — |
| 1981 | 473 | #455 | — | — |
| 1980 | 572 | #398 | — | — |
| 1979 | 575 | #385 | — | — |
| 1978 | 570 | #373 | — | — |
| 1977 | 629 | #352 | — | — |
| 1976 | 719 | #315 | — | — |
| 1975 | 871 | #279 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,006 | #255 | 6 | #4,961 |
| 1973 | 1,091 | #236 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,272 | #219 | 5 | #5,389 |
| 1971 | 1,610 | #192 | 9 | #3,535 |
| 1970 | 1,770 | #185 | 7 | #4,059 |
| 1969 | 1,806 | #179 | 9 | #3,202 |
| 1968 | 1,855 | #175 | 8 | #3,250 |
| 1967 | 2,003 | #166 | 5 | #4,273 |
| 1966 | 1,987 | #171 | 9 | #2,889 |
| 1965 | 1,799 | #189 | 11 | #2,553 |
| 1964 | 1,549 | #219 | 8 | #3,163 |
| 1963 | 1,412 | #233 | 10 | #2,774 |
| 1962 | 1,441 | #224 | 12 | #2,451 |
| 1961 | 1,210 | #255 | 5 | #4,378 |
| 1960 | 1,199 | #257 | 6 | #3,864 |
| 1959 | 892 | #307 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 1958 | 789 | #336 | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1957 | 720 | #339 | 11 | #2,567 |
| 1956 | 596 | #357 | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1955 | 384 | #462 | 19 | #1,824 |
| 1954 | 272 | #539 | 26 | #1,515 |
| 1953 | 191 | #649 | 16 | #2,002 |
| 1952 | 120 | #838 | 11 | #2,442 |
| 1951 | 73 | #1,094 | 8 | #2,956 |
| 1950 | 60 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,216 | 7 | #3,162 |
| 1948 | 51 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,020 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,987 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,732 | — | — |
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).