Kimberli
Kimberli was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,516 among girls’ names; 3,942 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,660 Americans named Kimberli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 34 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimberli?
#10,516 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimberli fell from #9,823 in 2015 to #10,516 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.6 per million.
163 babies in 1968, the peak
Kimberli peaked in 1968, when 163 girls were given it, #785 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,516 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,426 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,842 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,069 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,952 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,498 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,939 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,339 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,823 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,492 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 21 | #6,135 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,180 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,989 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,255 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,747 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,909 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,770 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,998 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,340 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,020 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,155 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,033 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,985 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,341 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,601 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,989 | 24.3 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,951 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,468 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,149 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,842 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,903 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,660 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,566 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,820 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,285 | 28.2 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,563 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,460 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,242 | 26.8 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,986 | 32.0 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,536 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,940 | 31.7 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,885 | 33.7 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,836 | 36.0 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,794 | 36.7 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,697 | 40.5 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,443 | 52.2 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,787 | 37.2 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,722 | 38.2 |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,444 | 49.4 |
| 1974 | 84 | #1,280 | 57.2 |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,206 | 61.0 |
| 1972 | 107 | #1,076 | 70.3 |
| 1971 | 133 | #960 | 79.9 |
| 1970 | 144 | #910 | 82.4 |
| 1969 | 150 | #848 | 88.9 |
| 1968 | 163 | #785 | 99.4 |
| 1967 | 149 | #818 | 90.2 |
| 1966 | 148 | #817 | 87.5 |
| 1965 | 134 | #863 | 75.9 |
| 1964 | 127 | #936 | 67.0 |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,192 | 43.6 |
| 1962 | 112 | #1,018 | 57.0 |
| 1961 | 88 | #1,177 | 43.6 |
| 1960 | 94 | #1,119 | 46.5 |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,251 | 36.6 |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,401 | 28.8 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,633 | 21.5 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,728 | 18.9 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,250 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,123 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,360 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,971 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,141 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimberli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberli, and how old are they?
3,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 3,942 Americans ever recorded as Kimberli. The median Kimberli alive today is 52 years old; half are between 34 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 3,452 people named Kimberli (3,448 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,669 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 | 652 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 686 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 625 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 138 |
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 Kimberli born?
The states with the most babies named Kimberli are California, Texas and Utah, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 563 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 329 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Utah | 127 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Illinois | 110 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 76 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 59 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kimberli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimberli is most over-represented in Utah: since 1951 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 Kimberli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kimberli?
Kimberli is a less common spelling of Kimberly: SSA has recorded 3,942 Kimberli and 850,666 Kimberly since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 920,819 babies since 1880, Kimberli is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,074 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Kimberli
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 Kimberli and names like it
- Compare Kimberli and KimberlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKimberli peaked in 1968.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberli since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Kimberli.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimberli alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.