Fewer than five US girls were named Kimbra in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,345, reached in 1959. The most girls given the name in a single year was 68, in 1961. For comparison, it was #17,890 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimbra in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 5 babies. In all, 1,226 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 446 babies named Kimbra.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Kimbra.
Rarer spellings such as Keambra and Kymbra are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.