Kimberlie
Kimberlie was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,101 among girls’ names; 3,678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,390 Americans named Kimberlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 39 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimberlie?
#14,101 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimberlie fell from #9,824 in 2015 to #14,101 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.7 per million.
147 babies in 1970, the peak
Kimberlie peaked in 1970, when 147 girls were given it, #898 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,101 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,544 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,949 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,408 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,327 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,739 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,794 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,435 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,351 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,824 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,729 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,363 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,476 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,000 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,727 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,678 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,040 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,916 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,246 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,523 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,657 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,167 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,270 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,381 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,230 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,671 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,188 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,751 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,924 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,029 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,135 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,501 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,661 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,524 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,537 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,538 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,564 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,592 | 22.4 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,135 | 29.1 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,820 | 36.0 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,537 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,332 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,234 | 26.6 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,875 | 34.8 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,854 | 35.5 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,578 | 45.5 |
| 1978 | 71 | #1,550 | 46.3 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,586 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 82 | #1,323 | 56.0 |
| 1975 | 85 | #1,304 | 58.3 |
| 1974 | 113 | #1,051 | 77.0 |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,018 | 78.9 |
| 1972 | 115 | #1,018 | 75.6 |
| 1971 | 122 | #1,016 | 73.3 |
| 1970 | 147 | #898 | 84.1 |
| 1969 | 130 | #935 | 77.1 |
| 1968 | 140 | #866 | 85.3 |
| 1967 | 118 | #942 | 71.5 |
| 1966 | 130 | #883 | 76.8 |
| 1965 | 134 | #864 | 75.9 |
| 1964 | 109 | #1,037 | 57.5 |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,059 | 53.4 |
| 1962 | 96 | #1,110 | 48.8 |
| 1961 | 88 | #1,178 | 43.6 |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,255 | 37.6 |
| 1959 | 64 | #1,343 | 31.6 |
| 1958 | 63 | #1,336 | 31.3 |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,382 | 28.9 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,424 | 27.4 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,710 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,643 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,018 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,670 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,605 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberlie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimberlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberlie, and how old are they?
3,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,678 Americans ever recorded as Kimberlie. The median Kimberlie alive today is 53 years old; half are between 39 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 3,026 people named Kimberlie (3,026 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,446 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 670 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 695 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 363 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 94 |
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 Kimberlie born?
The states with the most babies named Kimberlie are California, Texas and Michigan, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 534 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 194 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 111 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 77 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 76 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 63 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Kimberlie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimberlie is most over-represented in California: since 1951 it was given 1.3 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 Kimberlie 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 Kimberlie?
Kimberlie is a less common spelling of Kimberly: SSA has recorded 3,678 Kimberlie and 850,666 Kimberly since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 916,930 babies since 1880, Kimberlie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,074 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Kimberlie
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 Kimberlie and names like it
- Compare Kimberlie and KimberlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKimberlie peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberlie since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Kimberlie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kimberlie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.