Kimberlea
Kimberlea was last recorded in 2000, when 9 babies were given it; 531 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberlea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimberlea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,338, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1970, the peak
Kimberlea peaked in 1970, when 22 girls were given it, #3,066 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9 | #10,338 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,927 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,948 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,191 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,568 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,045 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,187 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,776 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,970 | 4.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,790 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 9 | #7,681 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,157 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,742 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,094 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,176 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,095 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,107 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,130 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,741 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,675 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,034 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,845 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,939 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,777 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,790 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,430 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,066 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,254 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,107 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,748 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,456 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,343 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,866 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,018 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,699 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,123 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,038 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,339 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,635 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,691 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,772 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,225 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,905 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberlea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberlea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimberlea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberlea, and how old are they?
An estimated 483 Americans named Kimberlea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 45 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 450 people named Kimberlea (449 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 497 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 916,879 babies since 1880, Kimberlea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,074 babies recorded by SSA was a Kimberlea (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 Kimberlea
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 Kimberlea and names like it
- Compare Kimberlea and KimberlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKimberlea peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberlea since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Kimberlea.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimberlea alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.