Kimberlee
Kimberlee was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,704 among girls’ names; 17,690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,300 Americans named Kimberlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 38 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kimberlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kimberlee is “a female given name.”
Variant of Kimberley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kimberlee?
#4,704 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimberlee fell from #2,793 in 2015 to #4,704 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.3 to 18.0 per million.
576 babies in 1970, the peak
Kimberlee peaked in 1970, when 576 girls were given it, #404 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,704 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,223 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,799 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,095 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,900 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,118 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,399 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,465 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,184 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,126 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,793 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,699 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,374 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,030 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,679 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,600 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,461 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,370 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,665 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,571 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,098 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,120 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,794 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,797 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,591 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 133 | #1,397 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 158 | #1,207 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 140 | #1,285 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 156 | #1,175 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 188 | #1,000 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 191 | #982 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 223 | #877 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 239 | #826 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 228 | #867 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 247 | #828 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 295 | #709 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 264 | #746 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 276 | #696 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 277 | #672 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 272 | #678 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 234 | #739 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 256 | #670 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 302 | #592 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 320 | #574 | 0.19 |
| 1981 | 333 | #558 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 372 | #518 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 363 | #525 | 0.23 |
| 1978 | 337 | #536 | 0.22 |
| 1977 | 348 | #527 | 0.23 |
| 1976 | 342 | #521 | 0.23 |
| 1975 | 357 | #501 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 355 | #495 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 418 | #448 | 0.29 |
| 1972 | 461 | #420 | 0.30 |
| 1971 | 487 | #429 | 0.29 |
| 1970 | 576 | #404 | 0.33 |
| 1969 | 572 | #396 | 0.34 |
| 1968 | 502 | #421 | 0.31 |
| 1967 | 488 | #422 | 0.30 |
| 1966 | 507 | #411 | 0.30 |
| 1965 | 482 | #428 | 0.27 |
| 1964 | 491 | #441 | 0.26 |
| 1963 | 452 | #457 | 0.23 |
| 1962 | 478 | #440 | 0.24 |
| 1961 | 446 | #464 | 0.22 |
| 1960 | 414 | #482 | 0.20 |
| 1959 | 395 | #488 | 0.20 |
| 1958 | 351 | #515 | 0.17 |
| 1957 | 412 | #466 | 0.20 |
| 1956 | 347 | #503 | 0.17 |
| 1955 | 301 | #527 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 150 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 94 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,933 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,169 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberlee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimberlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberlee, and how old are they?
16,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 17,690 Americans ever recorded as Kimberlee. The median Kimberlee alive today is 52 years old; half are between 38 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 14,704 people named Kimberlee (14,678 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 3,740 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 508 |
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 Kimberlee born?
The states with the most babies named Kimberlee are California, Texas and Michigan, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,522 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 1,003 | #3,576 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 867 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 842 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 812 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 801 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 722 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 615 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Washington | 570 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Utah | 562 | #766 | 3.3× |
Where Kimberlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimberlee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1947 it was given 3.3 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 Kimberlee 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 916,879 babies since 1880, Kimberlee is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 1,074 babies (2.7%), the second most given that year.
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 Kimberlee
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 Kimberlee and names like it
- Compare Kimberlee and KimberlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKimberlee peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberlee since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Kimberlee.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimberlee alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.