Meaning not yet researched.
Kimberly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,009 in 2025. Its best rank was #2 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2 in 1967; #303 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kimberly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#303 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #2.
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Kimberly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,009 girls in 2025. Peak: #2 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 34,130 (1970).
In 2025, 1,009 US girls were named Kimberly, making it the 303rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 56 places from #247 in 2024. That is 277 fewer than the 1,286 girls named Kimberly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 34,130, in 1970. For comparison, it was #108 in 2015 and #382 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimberly in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 7 babies. In all, 850,666 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 260,126 babies named Kimberly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,350 US girls were named Kimberly; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,332. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kimberly ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #185 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kimberley (38,278 babies since 1880), Kimberlee (17,690 babies since 1880), Kimber (11,666 babies since 1880) and Kimberli (3,942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kemberly, Kymberli and Kimberlea are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kim, Kimberley and Kimberli.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Old English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kemberly (1,503), Kymberli (582), Kimberlea (531), Kimberlly (184), Kymberley (106), Kimmberly (77), Kimberlye (70), Kemberley (39), Kimberlei (18), Kemberli (6), Kimberlyy (5).
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.
Kimberly is listed as a nickname for Kimberley.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 178 | #185 | #41 |
| Florida | 97 | #190 | #124 |
| Maryland | 27 | #192 | #106 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #202 | — |
| Alabama | 22 | #207 | #120 |
| Mississippi | 13 | #209 | #457 |
| California | 149 | #227 | #60 |
| Tennessee | 31 | #253 | #182 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #256 | #127 |
| Washington | 26 | #281 | #135 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #282 | #123 |
| Illinois | 34 | #318 | #100 |
| New York | 52 | #326 | #97 |
| Oregon | 11 | #339 | #122 |
| New Jersey | 24 | #344 | #92 |
| Virginia | 23 | #353 | #104 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #365 | #190 |
| Kansas | 9 | #386 | #135 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #391 | #233 |
| Georgia | 29 | #393 | #115 |
| Nevada | 7 | #400 | #52 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #409 | #373 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #431 | #159 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #434 | #184 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #447 | #138 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #459 | #195 |
| Arizona | 15 | #462 | #65 |
| Utah | 9 | #465 | #158 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #472 | #214 |
| Indiana | 13 | #529 | #180 |
| Missouri | 11 | #537 | #336 |
| Colorado | 10 | #565 | #191 |
| Ohio | 16 | #630 | #393 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #691 | #210 |
| Michigan | 10 | #761 | #314 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,009 | #303 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,286 | #247 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,338 | #222 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,392 | #211 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,351 | #221 | 6 | #11,520 |
| 2020 | 1,560 | #186 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,537 | #196 | 6 | #11,530 |
| 2018 | 1,705 | #173 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,840 | #164 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,332 | #133 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,843 | #108 | 6 | #11,481 |
| 2014 | 2,902 | #107 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,105 | #101 | 5 | #13,184 |
| 2012 | 3,317 | #88 | 10 | #7,878 |
| 2011 | 3,812 | #67 | — | — |
| 2010 | 3,871 | #69 | 9 | #8,490 |
| 2009 | 4,228 | #66 | — | — |
| 2008 | 4,814 | #57 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 2007 | 5,103 | #54 | 16 | #5,572 |
| 2006 | 5,011 | #58 | 12 | #6,704 |
| 2005 | 4,752 | #63 | 8 | #8,744 |
| 2004 | 4,847 | #61 | 20 | #4,352 |
| 2003 | 4,825 | #64 | 16 | #4,942 |
| 2002 | 4,790 | #63 | 8 | #8,102 |
| 2001 | 4,880 | #61 | 11 | #6,256 |
| 2000 | 5,244 | #58 | 10 | #6,610 |
| 1999 | 5,457 | #51 | 13 | #5,195 |
| 1998 | 5,722 | #54 | 16 | #4,312 |
| 1997 | 6,182 | #49 | 8 | #6,979 |
| 1996 | 7,176 | #41 | 25 | #2,982 |
| 1995 | 7,745 | #37 | 19 | #3,505 |
| 1994 | 8,747 | #32 | 37 | #2,202 |
| 1993 | 7,965 | #39 | 27 | #2,669 |
| 1992 | 8,895 | #35 | 34 | #2,236 |
| 1991 | 9,799 | #34 | 30 | #2,372 |
| 1990 | 10,191 | #31 | 36 | #2,063 |
| 1989 | 11,037 | #28 | 63 | #1,387 |
| 1988 | 11,948 | #25 | 53 | #1,461 |
| 1987 | 13,031 | #23 | 56 | #1,327 |
| 1986 | 14,420 | #18 | 64 | #1,195 |
| 1985 | 14,914 | #19 | 54 | #1,311 |
| 1984 | 14,445 | #22 | 60 | #1,182 |
| 1983 | 15,370 | #15 | 66 | #1,101 |
| 1982 | 16,101 | #14 | 73 | #1,067 |
| 1981 | 16,689 | #13 | 55 | #1,241 |
| 1980 | 18,497 | #11 | 83 | #995 |
| 1979 | 17,635 | #12 | 64 | #1,125 |
| 1978 | 16,879 | #13 | 73 | #1,023 |
| 1977 | 18,286 | #8 | 81 | #951 |
| 1976 | 18,962 | #7 | 61 | #1,077 |
| 1975 | 20,257 | #7 | 82 | #909 |
| 1974 | 22,427 | #6 | 95 | #828 |
| 1973 | 23,531 | #4 | 96 | #806 |
| 1972 | 26,282 | #4 | 91 | #844 |
| 1971 | 30,708 | #4 | 102 | #798 |
| 1970 | 34,130 | #3 | 113 | #778 |
| 1969 | 33,077 | #4 | 116 | #724 |
| 1968 | 31,906 | #3 | 110 | #719 |
| 1967 | 33,097 | #2 | 116 | #690 |
| 1966 | 32,232 | #2 | 116 | #688 |
| 1965 | 28,836 | #4 | 121 | #678 |
| 1964 | 24,128 | #6 | 99 | #767 |
| 1963 | 21,224 | #11 | 88 | #808 |
| 1962 | 20,363 | #16 | 80 | #847 |
| 1961 | 17,355 | #22 | 111 | #733 |
| 1960 | 16,854 | #26 | 97 | #774 |
| 1959 | 12,790 | #33 | 110 | #731 |
| 1958 | 10,710 | #39 | 140 | #652 |
| 1957 | 9,454 | #42 | 156 | #616 |
| 1956 | 6,730 | #74 | 161 | #600 |
| 1955 | 3,862 | #111 | 177 | #553 |
| 1954 | 2,087 | #168 | 144 | #615 |
| 1953 | 1,428 | #209 | 124 | #641 |
| 1952 | 966 | #254 | 92 | #735 |
| 1951 | 486 | #366 | 95 | #714 |
| 1950 | 445 | #382 | 39 | #1,152 |
| 1949 | 362 | #415 | 37 | #1,173 |
| 1948 | 315 | #450 | 29 | #1,366 |
| 1947 | 255 | #522 | 11 | #2,440 |
| 1946 | 130 | #709 | 6 | #3,360 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,888 | 5 | #3,690 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,363 | 5 | #3,716 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,042 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,065 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,594 | — | — |
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).