How common is the name Kimberly?

696,165 people in the United States have the first name Kimberly, about 1 in 434. It ranks #51 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KIMBERLY

#51

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
696,165
About
1 in 434
This common or more
21.2%
Who bears it

Of the 696,165 people named Kimberly, 72.7% reported their origin as White, 11.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 10.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kimberly peaked in 1970, when 34,243 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19332025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
34,243
In 2025*
1,009 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 850,666 babies have been given the name since 1933. 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.

Kimberly by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #17. The largest share of babies named Kimberly, 48%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#6,44752
1940s#1,2281,282
1950s#16850,196
1960s#20260,126
1970s#17229,955
1980s#45147,079
1990s#8278,124
2000s#15048,610
2010s#26327,300
2020s#5037,942
Silent Generation 1928–450%
Baby boom 1946–6417.8%
Generation X 1965–8048%
Millennials 1981–9622.2%
Generation Z 1997–129.1%
2013 and later2.8%

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 Kimberly is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kimberly has been most common in Delaware (1.5×), Alaska (1.3×), and Maryland (1.3×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.72×).

847,231 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.

Either side of Kimberly

#49 Nicholas · 711,305#50 Amanda · 698,989#52 Ronald · 689,843#53 Laura · 679,856

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kimberly, most common first.

#1,189 Kimberley · 33,055#1,920 Kimberlee · 14,704#2,606 Kimber · 9,179#5,092 Kimberli · 3,452#5,600 Kimberlie · 3,026#5,654 Kimberlyn · 2,989#7,004 Kimbery · 2,226#9,024 Kimberely · 1,570

Also a last name

As a last name, Kimberly ranks #15,680 of 156,621, with 1,793 people. See Kimberly as a last name

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