Kimbra — girls' name
1,226 babies named Kimbra in U.S. Social Security records since 1951, with the highest year being 1961. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Kimbra was born in this single decade.
68 babies were named Kimbra in 1961 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kimbra
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,226 babies named Kimbra between 1951 and 2015, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kimbra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 68 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kimbra performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 446 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kimbra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 100 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kimbra in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kimbra in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,226 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kimbra at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kimbra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1951
- Peak year (1961)
- 68
- Annual births at peak — across 65 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
1,226 total births across 65 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1961 with 68 births in a single year.
Kimbra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 446 births that decade — 36% of Kimbra's all-time total
Kimbra decade highlights
- Peak decade 446 births
- Runner-up 266 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Kimbra's strongest decade
446 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Kimbra by state
Where Kimbra concentrates geographically — total births since 1951
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 100 | 8.2% |
| #2 | Texas | | 90 | 7.3% |
| #3 | California | | 48 | 3.9% |
| #4 | Indiana | | 34 | 2.8% |
| #5 | Illinois | | 18 | 1.5% |
| #6 | Oregon | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Tennessee | | 5 | 0.4% |
100 of 1,226 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 8.2% of nationwide
- Texas 7.3% of nationwide
- California 3.9% of nationwide
- Indiana 2.8% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 8.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1951–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.