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How popular is “Kimberley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kimberley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kimberley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kimberley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kimberley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kimberley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kimberley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kimberley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1946 23 0.000007198 23 100%
1947 40 0.000011104 40 100%
1948 51 0.000014772 51 100%
1949 63 0.000018079 56 7 78%
1950 60 0.000017126 60 100%
1951 81 0.000021989 73 8 80%
1952 131 0.000034492 120 11 83%
1953 207 0.000053715 191 16 85%
1954 298 0.000074861 272 26 83%
1955 403 0.000100372 384 19 91%
1956 610 0.000147949 596 14 95%
1957 731 0.000173959 720 11 97%
1958 797 0.000192796 789 8 98%
1959 897 0.000215729 892 5 99%
1960 1205 0.000290095 1199 6 99%
1961 1216 0.000293557 1211 5 99%
1962 1453 0.000360066 1441 12 98%
1963 1422 0.000359254 1412 10 99%
1964 1555 0.000399989 1547 8 99%
1965 1810 0.000499249 1799 11 99%
1966 1995 0.000573993 1986 9 99%
1967 2008 0.000591476 2003 5 100%
1968 1864 0.000551738 1856 8 99%
1969 1815 0.000522254 1806 9 99%
1970 1777 0.00049272 1770 7 99%
1971 1619 0.000471688 1610 9 99%
1972 1277 0.000406301 1272 5 99%
1973 1091 0.000361631 1091 100%
1974 1012 0.000332895 1006 6 99%
1975 871 0.000288468 871 100%
1976 719 0.000236957 719 100%
1977 629 0.000198017 629 100%
1978 570 0.000179591 570 100%
1979 575 0.000172828 575 100%
1980 572 0.000166062 572 100%
1981 473 0.00013673 473 100%
1982 446 0.000127139 446 100%
1983 387 0.000111742 387 100%
1984 327 0.00009373 327 100%
1985 344 0.000096383 344 100%
1986 366 0.000102893 366 100%
1987 294 0.00008154 294 100%
1988 284 0.00007686 284 100%
1989 295 0.000076734 295 100%
1990 324 0.000081974 324 100%
1991 290 0.000074449 290 100%
1992 233 0.000060657 233 100%
1993 225 0.000059677 225 100%
1994 213 0.000057294 213 100%
1995 185 0.000050517 185 100%
1996 190 0.000052095 190 100%
1997 163 0.000044956 163 100%
1998 132 0.000035887 132 100%
1999 128 0.000034652 128 100%
2000 120 0.000031747 120 100%
2001 105 0.000028049 105 100%
2002 73 0.000019528 73 100%
2003 78 0.000020514 78 100%
2004 104 0.000027219 104 100%
2005 89 0.000023148 89 100%
2006 93 0.000023507 93 100%
2007 98 0.000024514 98 100%
2008 67 0.000017045 67 100%
2009 79 0.00002068 79 100%
2010 68 0.0000184 68 100%
2011 63 0.000017224 63 100%
2012 55 0.000015038 55 100%
2013 60 0.000016458 60 100%
2014 58 0.000015649 58 100%
2015 44 0.000011889 44 100%
2016 42 0.000011448 42 100%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 100%
2018 37 0.000010524 37 100%
2019 26 0.000007491 26 100%
2020 24 0.000007184 24 100%
2021 22 0.000006494 22 100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 100%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 100%

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  2. Kimberlea
  3. Kimberlee
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  5. Kimberleigh
  6. Kimberley (this page)
  7. Kimberli
  8. Kimberlie
  9. Kimberlin
  10. Kimberlina
  11. Kimberline