Kimberley
Kimberley was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,827 among girls’ names; 38,278 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,600 Americans named Kimberley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 49 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kimberley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kimberley is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kimberly, popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.” Its etymology gives the senses “wood or clearing of Kyneburga (a seventh century female saint)” (name) and “royal” (cyne-) and “fortress” (burh).
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname or place name (site of a battle in the Boer Wars).”
English place name “wood or clearing of Kyneburga (a seventh century female saint)”, from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”) + lēah (“leigh, clearing”).
/ˈkɪmbɚli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kimberley?
#5,827 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimberley fell from #3,564 in 2015 to #5,827 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 13.1 per million.
2,008 babies in 1967, the peak
Kimberley peaked in 1967, when 2,008 babies were given it (2,003 girls, #166 among girls’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,827 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,084 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,065 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,855 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,663 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,244 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,106 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,969 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,253 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,679 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,564 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,953 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,858 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,062 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,784 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,661 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,437 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,736 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,077 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 93 | #2,103 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,099 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,828 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,213 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,253 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,719 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,521 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,384 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,332 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 163 | #1,143 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 190 | #990 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 185 | #1,003 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 213 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 225 | #860 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 233 | #853 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 290 | #720 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 324 | #665 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 295 | #684 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 284 | #681 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 294 | #642 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 366 | #555 | 0.21 |
| 1985 | 344 | #569 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 327 | #566 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 387 | #503 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 446 | #471 | 0.26 |
| 1981 | 473 | #455 | 0.28 |
| 1980 | 572 | #398 | 0.34 |
| 1979 | 575 | #385 | 0.36 |
| 1978 | 570 | #373 | 0.37 |
| 1977 | 629 | #352 | 0.41 |
| 1976 | 719 | #315 | 0.49 |
| 1975 | 871 | #279 | 0.60 |
| 1974 | 1,006 | #255 | 0.69 |
| 1973 | 1,091 | #236 | 0.75 |
| 1972 | 1,272 | #219 | 0.84 |
| 1971 | 1,610 | #192 | 1.0 |
| 1970 | 1,770 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 1,806 | #179 | 1.1 |
| 1968 | 1,855 | #175 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 2,003 | #166 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 1,987 | #171 | 1.2 |
| 1965 | 1,799 | #189 | 1.0 |
| 1964 | 1,549 | #219 | 0.82 |
| 1963 | 1,412 | #233 | 0.73 |
| 1962 | 1,441 | #224 | 0.73 |
| 1961 | 1,210 | #255 | 0.60 |
| 1960 | 1,199 | #257 | 0.59 |
| 1959 | 892 | #307 | 0.44 |
| 1958 | 789 | #336 | 0.39 |
| 1957 | 720 | #339 | 0.35 |
| 1956 | 596 | #357 | 0.30 |
| 1955 | 384 | #461 | 0.20 |
| 1954 | 272 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 191 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 120 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 73 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 60 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 51 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,947 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,912 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,730 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberley has been given almost only to girls: 235 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kimberley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberley, and how old are they?
34,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 38,278 Americans ever recorded as Kimberley. The median Kimberley alive today is 57 years old; half are between 49 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 33,055 people named Kimberley (32,936 women and girls, 119 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35,550 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,390 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 416 |
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 Kimberley born?
The states with the most babies named Kimberley are California, Texas and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5,007 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 2,721 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 2,236 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 1,916 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 1,820 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 1,719 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,459 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 1,349 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 1,238 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 1,160 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Kimberley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimberley is most over-represented in Washington: since 1941 it was given 1.4 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 Kimberley 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 920,819 babies since 1880, Kimberley is the second most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 1,074 babies (2.0%), the third 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 Kimberley
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 Kimberley and names like it
- Compare Kimberley and KimberlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKimberley peaked in 1967.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kimberley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Kimberley.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimberley alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.