Kimball — #6202 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kimball

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,001 babies named Kimball between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kimball currently holds the #6202 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 66 babies received it in a single year. Kimball is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 140 additional births since 1951.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kimball performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 469 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Kimball shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 288 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kimball in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kimball in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,001 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.