Meaning not yet researched.
Kimberlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,179 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,179 in 1967; #3,807 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kimberlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,807 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #1,179.
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Kimberlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,179 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 121 (1993).
In 2025, 39 US girls were named Kimberlyn, making it the 3,807th most common girls’ name of the year, down 373 places from #3,434 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 46 girls named Kimberlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,179, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 121, in 1993. For comparison, it was #2,181 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimberlyn in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 10 babies. In all, 3,926 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 801 babies named Kimberlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 456 US girls were named Kimberlyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kimberly (850,666 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kimberlynn, Kimberlyann and Kymberlyn 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kimberlynn (1,113), Kimberlyann (393), Kymberlyn (97), Kymberlynn (57), Kimberline (6), Kemberlyn (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.
No nicknames listed for Kimberlyn 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 | 39 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,701 | — | — |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,369 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 2015 | 87 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,943 | — | — |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1994 | 118 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,321 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,698 | — | — |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1970 | 70 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1969 | 74 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1967 | 82 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1964 | 68 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,923 | — | — |
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).