Kimber
#936 for girls in 2025, 278 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 96.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 516 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,215since 1951
Kimber over time
Rank among girls' names. Kimber has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #936 | 278 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #908 | 292 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #883 | 304 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #775 | 367 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #682 | 426 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #685 | 415 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #598 | 508 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #599 | 509 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #602 | 501 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #592 | 516 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #629 | 453 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #627 | 456 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #665 | 430 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #790 | 344 | — | |
| 2011 | #981 | 261 | — | |
| 2010 | #969 | 263 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,054 | 245 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,331 | 185 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,257 | 196 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,403 | 161 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,264 | 77 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,043 | 49 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,845 | 80 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,826 | 80 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,492 | 106 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,166 | 152 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,345 | 123 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,264 | 135 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,087 | 166 | — | |
| 1990 | #981 | 188 | — | |
| 1989 | #968 | 180 | — | |
| 1988 | #788 | 239 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,075 | 142 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,447 | 88 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,536 | 79 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,703 | 64 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,158 | 47 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,128 | 48 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,387 | 39 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,938 | 50 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,027 | 43 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #2,516 | 31 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #1,805 | 47 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,448 | 67 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #1,613 | 58 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #1,544 | 63 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,440 | 66 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,324 | 70 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #1,336 | 67 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,385 | 63 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #1,156 | 85 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #1,103 | 98 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #1,290 | 73 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #1,234 | 79 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #1,268 | 76 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #1,266 | 75 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #1,244 | 74 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #1,395 | 58 | #2,177 | 14 |
| 1957 | #1,376 | 59 | #2,494 | 11 |
| 1956 | #1,470 | 52 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #1,978 | 29 | #1,979 | 16 |
| 1954 | #2,378 | 21 | #1,887 | 17 |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | #2,186 | 13 |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | — | #2,321 | 11 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kimber! It came in at #4,833, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Kimber is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#397 · 1 in 3,127
- Wisconsin#457 · 1 in 4,136
- Kentucky#481 · 1 in 4,177
- Oklahoma#496 · 1 in 3,584
- North Carolina#512 · 1 in 4,140
Best ever in a state: #29 in Wyoming, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #397 | 5 | 1 in 3,127 |
| Wisconsin | #457 | 7 | 1 in 4,136 |
| Kentucky | #481 | 5 | 1 in 4,177 |
| Oklahoma | #496 | 5 | 1 in 3,584 |
| North Carolina | #512 | 9 | 1 in 4,140 |
| Colorado | #558 | 5 | 1 in 4,198 |
| Indiana | #578 | 6 | 1 in 5,353 |
| Georgia | #739 | 6 | 1 in 6,532 |
| Texas | #942 | 15 | 1 in 8,591 |
| California | #1,018 | 22 | 1 in 9,778 |
| Florida | #1,244 | 5 | 1 in 13,884 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kimber
- 28 spots since 2024 (#908 → #936)
- 251 spots since 2020 (#685 → #936)
- 307 spots since 2015 (#629 → #936)
- Biggest jump: 287 spots in 1988 (#1,075 → #788)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 1989 (#788 → #968)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2016 at #592 (516 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,304 girls born in 2019 were named Kimber (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,782 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #592 in 2016, was only 1 in 3,434 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.8% of all girls named Kimber (4,241) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 332 | #1,244 (1959) | #2,216 |
| 1960s | 752 | #1,103 (1964) | #1,280 |
| 1970s | 477 | #1,448 (1972) | #1,965 |
| 1980s | 989 | #788 (1988) | #1,585 |
| 1990s | 1,163 | #981 (1990) | #1,539 |
| 2000s | 1,179 | #1,054 (2009) | #2,047 |
| 2010s | 4,241 | #592 (2016) | #705 |
| 2020s | 2,082 | #682 (2021) | #812 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kimber in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 12,244 of them was named Kimber, which outranked 91.9% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,070Jewel143
- #1,070Lindy143
- #1,070Violet143
- #1,075Kimber142
- #1,075Candi142
- #1,075Darla142
- #1,075Kevin142
- #1,081Amberly141
- #1,081Brittnie141
- #1,081Carlie141
Tied with 5 names at #1,075; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.