Kimberley
Kimberley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 166th, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19672,003 births
- Best rank
- #166in 1967
- Since 1941
- 38,021people given the name
The story in the numbers
38,021 girls have been named Kimberley in the United States since 1941, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 2,003 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 2,003 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 43%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kimberley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 190 | |
| 1950s | 4,097 | |
| 1960s | 16,260 | |
| 1970s | 10,113 | |
| 1980s | 3,788 | |
| 1990s | 2,083 | |
| 2000s | 906 | |
| 2010s | 478 | |
| 2020s | 106 |
In 1967, its biggest year
Kimberley was the 166th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1967 were Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle, Mary and Susan. See all of 1967.
Names that rose and fell with Kimberley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Machellepeak 1968
- Tinapeak 1968
- Missypeak 1967
- Shawnepeak 1969
- Shellipeak 1968
- Shellypeak 1964
- Traceypeak 1970
- Angeliapeak 1966
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.