How rare is the name Kimberley?

33,055 people in the United States have the first name Kimberley, about 1 in 9,137. It ranks #1,189 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KIMBERLEY

#1,189

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
33,055
About
1 in 9,137
This common or more
72.4%
Who bears it

Of the 33,055 people named Kimberley, 78% reported their origin as White, 9.9% as Black and 6.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kimberley peaked in 1967, when 2,008 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19412025
Peak year
1967
Births that year
2,008
In 2025*
21 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 38,278 babies have been given the name since 1941. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kimberley by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #382. The largest share of babies named Kimberley, 52.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#3,413197
1950s#7824,215
1960s#38216,344
1970s#48210,140
1980s#9763,788
1990s#1,6572,083
2000s#3,573906
2010s#5,824478
2020s#9,902127
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–6429.4%
Generation X 1965–8052.8%
Millennials 1981–9612.7%
Generation Z 1997–124%
2013 and later1.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kimberley is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kimberley has been most common in Vermont (1.7×), Washington (1.6×), and Oregon (1.6×), and least common in North Dakota (0.38×).

35,164 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Also a last name

As a last name, Kimberley ranks #49,237 of 156,621, with 462 people. See Kimberley as a last name

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