Meaning not yet researched.
Kimberli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #785 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #785 in 1968; #10,520 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kimberli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,520 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #785.
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Kimberli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #785 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 163 (1968).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Kimberli, making it the 10,520th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,090 places from #7,430 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 15 girls named Kimberli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #785, reached in 1968. That year also had the most girls given the name: 163. For comparison, it was #9,828 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimberli in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 6 babies. In all, 3,942 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,249 babies named Kimberli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 91 US girls were named Kimberli; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kimberly (850,666 babies since 1880), Kimberley (38,278 babies since 1880), Kimberlee (17,690 babies since 1880) and Kimberlie (3,678 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kimberlin 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Hungarian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kimberlin (1,155).
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 Kimberli in the open dataset we use.
Kimberli is listed as a nickname for Kimberley, 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 | 9 | #10,520 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,430 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,847 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,074 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,957 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,502 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,944 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,344 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,828 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,495 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,138 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,182 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,770 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,346 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,605 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,954 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,908 | — | — |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1974 | 84 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1972 | 107 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1971 | 133 | #960 | — | — |
| 1970 | 144 | #910 | — | — |
| 1969 | 150 | #848 | — | — |
| 1968 | 163 | #785 | — | — |
| 1967 | 149 | #818 | — | — |
| 1966 | 148 | #817 | — | — |
| 1965 | 134 | #863 | — | — |
| 1964 | 127 | #936 | — | — |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1962 | 112 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1961 | 88 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1960 | 94 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,125 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,142 | — | — |
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).