Kimberlyn
Kimberlyn was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,806 among girls’ names; 3,926 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,760 Americans named Kimberlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimberlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kimberlyn?
#3,806 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimberlyn fell from #2,181 in 2015 to #3,806 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 24.3 per million.
121 babies in 1993, the peak
Kimberlyn peaked in 1993, when 121 girls were given it, #1,366 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,806 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,434 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,698 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,253 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,368 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,715 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,423 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,418 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,457 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,607 | 38.4 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,181 | 48.7 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,336 | 44.2 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,163 | 49.6 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,697 | 37.5 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,208 | 48.9 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,373 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,385 | 44.1 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,957 | 57.1 |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,139 | 48.9 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,091 | 49.4 |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,350 | 41.1 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,939 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,510 | 35.6 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,535 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,365 | 37.2 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,221 | 39.1 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,165 | 39.5 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,837 | 47.5 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,818 | 47.1 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,814 | 46.2 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,515 | 58.6 |
| 1994 | 118 | #1,387 | 66.1 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,366 | 66.9 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,360 | 29.8 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,366 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,316 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,828 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,390 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,916 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,261 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,666 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,072 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,099 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,098 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,182 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,161 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,280 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,698 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,487 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,319 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,079 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,808 | 33.4 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,042 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,738 | 33.5 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,814 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 70 | #1,455 | 40.0 |
| 1969 | 74 | #1,322 | 43.9 |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,394 | 39.6 |
| 1967 | 82 | #1,179 | 49.7 |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,188 | 48.5 |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,489 | 31.7 |
| 1964 | 68 | #1,364 | 35.9 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,379 | 33.7 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,618 | 24.9 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,506 | 27.7 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,802 | 19.8 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,172 | 13.8 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,834 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,138 | 13.2 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,075 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,922 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimberlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimberlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimberlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimberlyn, and how old are they?
3,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,926 Americans ever recorded as Kimberlyn. The median Kimberlyn alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,989 people named Kimberlyn (2,970 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 345 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 739 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 749 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 705 |
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 Kimberlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Kimberlyn are California, Texas and New York, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 368 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 331 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 143 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 61 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 56 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Kimberlyn 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,741 babies since 1880, Kimberlyn is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 59 babies (66%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberlyn | 3,926 | 39 | 1993 |
| Kimberlin | 1,155 | under 5 | 1993 |
| Kimberlynn | 1,113 | 20 | 2013 |
| Kimberlyann | 393 | under 5 | 1987 |
| Kymberlyn | 97 | under 5 | 1997 |
| Kymberlynn | 57 | under 5 | 2015 |
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 Kimberlyn
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 Kimberlyn and names like it
- Compare Kimberlyn and KimberlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKimberlyn peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimberlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kimberlyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kimberlyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.