Kimbal
Kimbal was last recorded in 1964, when 5 babies were given it; 61 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimbal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimbal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,342, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1957, the peak
Kimbal peaked in 1957, when 11 babies were given it (6 boys, #3,778 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 | #4,342 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,856 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,342 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,151 | 3.7 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,778 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,139 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,640 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,608 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,995 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimbal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 61 Americans recorded as Kimbal, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kimbal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimbal, and how old are they?
An estimated 43 Americans named Kimbal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 168 people named Kimbal (36 women and girls, 132 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 47 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kimbal rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Kimbal is a less common spelling of Kimball: SSA has recorded 61 Kimbal and 2,148 Kimball since 1880.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.