Kimber vs Kimberly
American parents have registered 850,666 Kimberlys since 1880, against 11,666 Kimbers. Kimberly is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kimber Kimberly
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 100 years in which either name was published, Kimberly for 93 years and Kimber for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Kimber | Kimberly | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 11,666 | 850,666 |
| Most in one year | 524 | 34,243 |
| Babies in 2025 | 293 | 1,009 |
| Estimated living today | 11,000 | 792,000 |
| Median age today | 13 | 51 |
| Peak year | 2016 | 1970 |
| Best rank | 592nd girls | 3rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 936th | 302nd |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1933 |
| Girls / boys | 11,215 / 451 | 846,393 / 4,273 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Kimberlys alive today are over 51; half the Kimbers are over 13. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Kimber Idaho (5.0×), Utah (3.8×), Montana (3.8×)
- Kimberly Delaware (1.4×), Alaska (1.3×), Maryland (1.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kimber and Kimberly.