Kimber
Kimber was given to 278 girls in 2025, #936 among girls’ names; 11,666 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Kimber and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimber by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kimber mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kimber is “a female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “royal” (cyne-) and “fortress” (burh).
From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburg, from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”).
English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa (“warrior”) (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn (“grove/wood”). It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kimber?
#936 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimber fell from #631 in 2015 to #936 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.17 per 1,000.
524 babies in 2016, the peak
Kimber peaked in 2016, when 524 babies were given it (516 girls, #593 among girls’ names). The 293 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 278 | #936 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 292 | #910 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 304 | #884 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 367 | #777 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 426 | #682 | 0.26 |
| 2020 | 415 | #685 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 508 | #599 | 0.30 |
| 2018 | 509 | #599 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 501 | #603 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 516 | #593 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 453 | #631 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 456 | #627 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 430 | #665 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 344 | #791 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 261 | #982 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 263 | #971 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 245 | #1,054 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 185 | #1,333 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 196 | #1,259 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,408 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,899 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,275 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,069 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,655 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,522 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,095 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,236 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,172 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,856 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,830 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,495 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 152 | #1,166 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 123 | #1,346 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 135 | #1,269 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 166 | #1,085 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 188 | #983 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 180 | #966 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 239 | #788 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 142 | #1,078 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 88 | #1,453 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,542 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,713 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,871 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,201 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,175 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,138 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,410 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,949 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,356 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,037 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,540 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,042 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,813 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 67 | #1,450 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 58 | #1,618 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,551 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 66 | #1,445 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 70 | #1,331 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 67 | #1,341 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,393 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,162 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,108 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,295 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 79 | #1,241 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 76 | #1,275 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,272 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,474 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,140 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimber a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,666 Americans recorded as Kimber, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 278 girls and 15 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kimber: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimber, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 11,666 Americans ever recorded as Kimber. The median Kimber alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 9,179 people named Kimber (8,778 women and girls, 401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 748 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 854 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,560 |
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 Kimber born?
The states with the most babies named Kimber are Texas, Missouri and Georgia, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #887 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 17 | #363 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 15 | #697 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #586 | 1.4× |
| Kansas | 13 | #243 | 1.6× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #362 | 2.6× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,291 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #923 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #949 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 8 | #775 | 1.0× |
Where Kimber is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimber is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1914 it was given 2.6 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 girls’ 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 Kimber 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 12,937 babies since 1880, Kimber is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 293 of their 318 babies (92%), again the most given.
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 Kimber
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 Kimber and names like it
- Compare Kimber and KymberBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKimber peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimber since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Kimber: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kimber.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kimber alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.