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How popular is “Kimberly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kimberly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kimberly” 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 “Kimberly” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kimberly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kimberly” 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
1933 7 0.000003501 7 100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 100%
1940 18 0.000007817 13 5 44%
1941 24 0.00000985 24 100%
1942 25 0.000009151 25 100%
1943 18 0.000006377 18 100%
1944 26 0.000009665 21 5 62%
1945 26 0.000009801 26 100%
1946 136 0.000042562 130 6 91%
1947 266 0.000073841 255 11 92%
1948 344 0.000099637 315 29 83%
1949 399 0.000114498 362 37 81%
1950 484 0.000138153 445 39 84%
1951 581 0.00015772 486 95 67%
1952 1058 0.000278567 966 92 83%
1953 1552 0.000402736 1428 124 84%
1954 2231 0.000560453 2087 144 87%
1955 4039 0.001005957 3862 177 91%
1956 6891 0.001671341 6730 161 95%
1957 9609 0.00228669 9453 156 97%
1958 10850 0.002624638 10710 140 97%
1959 12901 0.0031027 12791 110 98%
1960 16947 0.004079864 16851 96 99%
1961 17467 0.004216739 17356 111 99%
1962 20442 0.005065704 20362 80 99%
1963 21314 0.005384771 21225 89 99%
1964 24229 0.006232372 24131 98 99%
1965 28958 0.007987425 28837 121 99%
1966 32347 0.009306735 32231 116 99%
1967 33212 0.009782919 33096 116 99%
1968 32018 0.009477231 31907 111 99%
1969 33192 0.009550767 33076 116 99%
1970 34246 0.009495596 34133 113 99%
1971 30808 0.008975762 30706 102 99%
1972 26372 0.008390726 26281 91 99%
1973 23627 0.007831583 23531 96 99%
1974 22522 0.007408555 22427 95 99%
1975 20340 0.006736451 20258 82 99%
1976 19023 0.006269321 18962 61 99%
1977 18366 0.005781846 18285 81 99%
1978 16951 0.005340798 16878 73 99%
1979 17701 0.005320409 17637 64 99%
1980 18583 0.005394968 18500 83 99%
1981 16744 0.004840181 16689 55 99%
1982 16174 0.004610654 16101 73 99%
1983 15436 0.00445697 15370 66 99%
1984 14506 0.00415793 14446 60 99%
1985 14967 0.004193482 14913 54 99%
1986 14482 0.004071319 14418 64 99%
1987 13086 0.00362934 13030 56 99%
1988 12002 0.003248135 11949 53 99%
1989 11100 0.002887281 11037 63 99%
1990 10227 0.002587491 10191 36 99%
1991 9829 0.00252332 9799 30 99%
1992 8929 0.00232449 8895 34 99%
1993 7992 0.002119737 7965 27 99%
1994 8784 0.002362781 8747 37 99%
1995 7764 0.002120063 7745 19 100%
1996 7200 0.00197412 7175 25 99%
1997 6190 0.001707233 6182 8 100%
1998 5737 0.001559727 5721 16 99%
1999 5470 0.001480833 5457 13 100%
2000 5254 0.001389982 5244 10 100%
2001 4891 0.00130657 4880 11 100%
2002 4798 0.001283474 4790 8 100%
2003 4841 0.00127317 4825 16 99%
2004 4866 0.001273514 4846 20 99%
2005 4760 0.001238021 4752 8 100%
2006 5022 0.001269403 5010 12 100%
2007 5118 0.001280242 5102 16 99%
2008 4829 0.001228545 4814 15 99%
2009 4228 0.001106756 4228 100%
2010 3880 0.001049858 3871 9 100%
2011 3812 0.001042159 3812 100%
2012 3326 0.000909397 3316 10 99%
2013 3109 0.000852793 3104 5 100%
2014 2902 0.000782975 2902 100%
2015 2849 0.00076981 2843 6 100%
2016 2332 0.000635648 2332 100%
2017 1840 0.000514513 1840 100%
2018 1705 0.00048494 1705 100%
2019 1542 0.000444261 1536 6 99%
2020 1560 0.000466985 1560 100%
2021 1356 0.000400242 1350 6 99%
2022 1392 0.000411453 1392 100%
2023 1336 0.00040348 1336 100%
2024 1285 0.00038606 1285 100%