Kimberely
Kimberely was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 2,300 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Kimberely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 48 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimberely?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,702, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
126 babies in 1970, the peak
Kimberely peaked in 1970, when 126 girls were given it, #991 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,702 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,507 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,218 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,882 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,528 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,378 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,708 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,063 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,612 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,352 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 16 | #5,805 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,273 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,575 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,284 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,947 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,431 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,468 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,107 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,896 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,645 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,331 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,797 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,466 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,031 | 31.3 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,411 | 24.3 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,252 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,277 | 26.1 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,894 | 32.8 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,468 | 48.0 |
| 1974 | 82 | #1,305 | 55.9 |
| 1973 | 100 | #1,124 | 68.6 |
| 1972 | 90 | #1,196 | 59.2 |
| 1971 | 107 | #1,111 | 64.3 |
| 1970 | 126 | #991 | 72.1 |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,014 | 68.2 |
| 1968 | 121 | #942 | 73.8 |
| 1967 | 119 | #937 | 72.1 |
| 1966 | 118 | #935 | 69.7 |
| 1965 | 123 | #912 | 69.7 |
| 1964 | 89 | #1,168 | 47.0 |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,256 | 39.9 |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,308 | 36.6 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,486 | 28.2 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,587 | 24.7 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,707 | 20.8 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,006 | 15.4 |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,007 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,247 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,034 | 7.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,986 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberely has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimberely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberely, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,300 Americans ever recorded as Kimberely. The median Kimberely alive today is 56 years old; half are between 48 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 1,570 people named Kimberely (1,567 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 409 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,280 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 362 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 52 |
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 Kimberely born?
The states with the most babies named Kimberely are California, Texas and Ohio, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 162 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 81 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 40 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 30 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Kimberely 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 899,784 babies since 1880, Kimberely is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,039 babies recorded by SSA was a Kimberely (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kimberely
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 Kimberely and names like it
- Compare Kimberely and KimberlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKimberely peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberely since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Kimberely.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimberely alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.