Kimberely

Last seen for girls in 2006 at #17,168

Peak · girls
1965 · 123 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,300
since 1952

Kimberely over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kimberely has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201952peak #908, 1965girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2006#17,1685
2005#14,5026
2004#11,6248
2003#11,3258
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1999#8,22311
1998#14,1225
1997#8,33410
1996#9,5818
1995#13,3865
1994#5,24918
1993#5,67316
1992#7,06712
1991#4,49722
1990#6,13114
1989#3,89325
1988#3,39328
1987#3,42426
1986#4,02820
1985#2,86032
1984#2,62535
1983#2,31041
1982#2,77033
1981#2,44739
1980#2,01452
1979#2,38739
1978#2,23741
1977#2,25740
1976#1,88348
1975#1,45970
1974#1,30082
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1972#1,19290
1971#1,111107
1970#989126
1969#1,007115
1968#939121
1967#935119
1966#929118
1965#908123
1964#1,16789
1963#1,25077
1962#1,30472
1961#1,48157
1960#1,58050
1959#1,69542
1958#1,98531
1957#1,98930
1956#3,18614
1955#2,97115
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First appearance
1952

The first year at least five girls were named Kimberely! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1952–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Kimberely is popular in 1952

No state had 5 or more girls named Kimberely in 1952, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kimberely
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2006
  • Biggest jump: 259 spots in 1965 (#1,167 → #908)
  • Biggest drop: 122 spots in 1971 (#989 → #1,111)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1952
  • Peaked 1965 at #908 (123 births)
  • Births halved by 1976, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1965–1968
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,557
  • Highest: 1 in 13,557 girls born in 1968 were named Kimberely (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 380,242 girls born in 2006 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #908 in 1965, was only 1 in 14,351 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 40.9% of all girls named Kimberely (941) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s137#1,695 (1959)#2,898
1960s941#908 (1965)#1,150
1970s743#989 (1970)#1,594
1980s331#2,014 (1980)#2,976
1990s121#4,497 (1991)#8,226
2000s27#11,325 (2003)#13,655

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.

Kimberely in 1952

girls
#5,563
5 births · 1 in 370,867 girls

Top girls' names in 1952

  1. #1Linda67,082
  2. #2Mary65,629
  3. #3Patricia53,101
  4. #4Deborah49,811
  5. #5Susan41,348
  6. #6Barbara39,864
  7. #7Nancy31,739
  8. #8Karen28,956
  9. #9Debra26,832
  10. #10Sandra26,097
  11. #5,563Kimberely5
More about 1952

girls

1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 370,867 of them was named Kimberely, which outranked 12.9% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kimberely
  1. #4,908Zanna6
  2. #4,908Zelinda6
  3. #4,908Zeta6
  4. #5,563Kimberely5
  5. #5,563Adaline5
  6. #5,563Adean5
  7. #5,563Adelfa5

Tied with 826 names at #5,563; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1951
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,501Pandora#3,284 → #783
  2. ↑ 368Lise#1,314 → #946
  3. ↑ 353Vanessa#656 → #303
  4. ↑ 334Dorinda#1,170 → #836
  5. ↑ 332Mitzi#928 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 380Rhona#988 → #1,368
  2. ↓ 342Sharleen#765 → #1,107
  3. ↓ 270Enid#908 → #1,178
  4. ↓ 237Allyn#988 → #1,225
  5. ↓ 230Sheron#908 → #1,138

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1952 →