Kimberly

Where Kimberly comes from

Variant spelling of Kimberley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kimberly
  • From a surname
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #3,406 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Peak, #2
    33,097 babies named Kimberly — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    Kimberly Williams-Paisley born
    American actor and film director
  4. 1982
    Kimberly Wyatt born
    American dancer and choreographer
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #14.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.
Namesakes
  • Kimberly Wyatt · American dancer and choreographer, born 1982
  • Kimberly Williams-Paisley · American actor and film director, born 1971
  • Kimberly Elise · actress, born 1967
  • Kimberly Kane · American pornographic actress, born 1983
  • Kimberly Matula · American actress, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.