Girls' name · since 1966
Kinberly
Kinberly has 350 recorded births since 1966 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1972 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 350
- total births
- 1966–2015
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 25%
- born in that decade
Kinberly is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 350 have been recorded since 1966.
Kinberly has 350 recorded births among girls since 1966, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1966 to 2015.
- 350 total births
- 1966–2015 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 25% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kinberly's 350 recorded births place it above 80% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 1 jurisdictions, led by California.
Kinberly's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kinberly's full recorded timeline at 1988, 46% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 54% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1967, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1972 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kinberly popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1966–2015
- Peak year (1972)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 50 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2015.
350 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1972 with 16 births in a single year.
Kinberly by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kinberly's strongest decade.
89 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 25% of all-time use.
Kinberly births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 33
1960s
33 births
- 1970s
1970s
89 births
- 1980s
1980s
80 births
- 1990s 27
1990s
27 births
- 2000s
2000s
86 births
- 2010s 35
2010s
35 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 89 births (25% of all-time use).
Kinberly decade highlights
- Peak decade 89 births
- Runner-up 86 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
Kinberly by state
Where Kinberly concentrates geographically, total births since 1966
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 11 | 3.1% |
11 of 350 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.1% of all recorded births nationwide - a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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- Kinberly's usage has stayed within range of its 1970s decade-level peak (89 total births) through the 2010s (35) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
- California records the most Kinberlys (11 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. California names
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1966–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kinberly: Baby Name Since 1966 - 350 Births, Peak 1972." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kinberly. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kinberly draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.
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