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Kimberely vs Kimberlee

American parents have registered 17,690 Kimberlees since 1880, against 2,300 Kimberelys. Kimberlee is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kimberely against Kimberlee, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kimberely Kimberlee

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

Kimberlee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1965, when Kimberely had 123 and Kimberlee had 482.

Side by side

  Kimberely Kimberlee
Total US births 2,30017,690
Most in one year 126576
Babies in 2025 under 529
Estimated living today 2,10016,000
Median age today 5551
Peak year 19701970
Best rank 989th girls404th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,661st
First recorded 19521947
Girls / boys 2,300 / 017,690 / 0

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 Kimberelys alive today are over 55; half the Kimberlees are over 51. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Kimberely and Kimberlee.