Kimberly
Kimberly is ranked 246th among girls in 2024 (1,285 births). Its best rank was 2nd, in 1966–1967.
- Rank in 2024
- #246down 24 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,2850.08% of girls
- Peak year
- 197034,133 births
- Best rank
- #2first in 1966
- Since 1933
- 849,647people given the name
The story in the numbers
845,374 girls have been named Kimberly in the United States since 1933, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 34,133 births — 2.0% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 1,285 births in 2024, against 34,133 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 57 of them in the top 100 and 14 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 4,273 boys have also been given it, 0.50% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kimberly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 52 | |
| 1940s | 1,189 | |
| 1950s | 48,958 | |
| 1960s | 259,072 | |
| 1970s | 229,098 | |
| 1980s | 146,453 | |
| 1990s | 77,877 | |
| 2000s | 48,491 | |
| 2010s | 27,261 | |
| 2020s | 6,923 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Kimberly was the 3rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Kimberly
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kimberliepeak 1970
- Ginapeak 1967
- Michellepeak 1969
- Lavettepeak 1967
- Tamarapeak 1970
- Bethannpeak 1967
- Terinapeak 1969
- Sebrinapeak 1970
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.