Kimberle
Kimberle was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 1,219 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Kimberle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 53 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimberle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,700, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1962, the peak
Kimberle peaked in 1962, when 65 girls were given it, #1,379 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #16,700 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,310 | 4.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,259 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,963 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,276 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,158 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,060 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,680 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,417 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,249 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 12 | #5,694 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,005 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,363 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,091 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,843 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,129 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,740 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,222 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,737 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,338 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,162 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,476 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,635 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,632 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,792 | 28.6 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,719 | 29.6 |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,719 | 28.7 |
| 1967 | 58 | #1,468 | 35.1 |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,438 | 34.9 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,680 | 25.5 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,511 | 30.1 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,772 | 22.3 |
| 1962 | 65 | #1,379 | 33.1 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,562 | 26.3 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,606 | 24.2 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,576 | 23.7 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,456 | 26.8 |
| 1957 | 58 | #1,392 | 28.4 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,423 | 27.4 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,783 | 17.9 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,953 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,017 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,206 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,809 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimberle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberle, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,219 Americans ever recorded as Kimberle. The median Kimberle alive today is 60 years old; half are between 53 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,056 people named Kimberle (1,054 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 463 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 920,819 babies since 1880, Kimberle is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,074 babies recorded by SSA was a Kimberle (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 Kimberle
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 Kimberle and names like it
- Compare Kimberle and KimberlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKimberle peaked in 1962.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberle since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Kimberle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimberle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.