Kimball
Kimball was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,401 among boys’ names; 2,148 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Kimball and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 23 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimball by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kimball mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kimball is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “chief” (cyn) and “war” (bel).
From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kimball?
#11,401 among boys’ names, 2025
Kimball fell from #6,894 in 2015 to #11,401 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 3.5 per million.
66 babies in 1954, the peak
Kimball peaked in 1954, when 66 boys were given it, #910 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,401 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,339 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,289 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,048 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,302 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,173 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,458 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,925 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,340 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,674 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,894 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,625 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,547 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,385 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,915 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,452 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,365 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,990 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,847 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,305 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,994 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,987 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,202 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,406 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,275 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,300 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,531 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,554 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,814 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,760 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,969 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,530 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,565 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,459 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,751 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,832 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,395 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,614 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,799 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,676 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,555 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,391 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,534 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,651 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,137 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,182 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,722 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,997 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,121 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,894 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,701 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,878 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,334 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,124 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,329 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,450 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,946 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,666 | 13.2 |
| 1967 | 29 | #1,427 | 16.6 |
| 1966 | 33 | #1,332 | 18.5 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,307 | 18.8 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,321 | 18.1 |
| 1963 | 26 | #1,563 | 12.8 |
| 1962 | 29 | #1,464 | 14.0 |
| 1961 | 31 | #1,452 | 14.6 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,198 | 20.2 |
| 1959 | 28 | #1,514 | 13.1 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,271 | 17.4 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,175 | 20.4 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,061 | 24.1 |
| 1955 | 55 | #1,019 | 26.7 |
| 1954 | 66 | #910 | 32.4 |
| 1953 | 53 | #992 | 26.9 |
| 1952 | 57 | #948 | 29.3 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,030 | 25.5 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,328 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,364 | 16.3 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,634 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,379 | 15.9 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,788 | 10.5 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,514 | 14.9 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,556 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,951 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,208 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,269 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,249 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,538 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,358 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,346 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,461 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,292 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,292 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,035 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,968 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,971 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,119 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,177 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,400 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,710 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,284 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,261 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,794 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,768 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,644 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,236 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,519 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimball a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,148 Americans recorded as Kimball, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kimball: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimball, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 2,148 Americans ever recorded as Kimball. The median Kimball alive today is 50 years old; half are between 23 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,870 people named Kimball (246 women and girls, 1,624 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,679 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 559 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 277 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 193 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 382 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 172 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kimball born?
The states with the most babies named Kimball are Utah, California and New York, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 288 | not ranked | 14.6× |
| California | 84 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Idaho | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kimball is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimball is most over-represented in Utah: since 1914 it was given 14.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kimball with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,209 babies since 1880, Kimball is the most given (97% of them).
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kimball
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kimball and names like it
- Compare Kimball and KimbalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKimball peaked in 1954.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimball since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kimball: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Kimball.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kimball alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.