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Kimberly vs Kymberli

American parents have registered 850,666 Kimberlys since 1880, against 582 Kymberlis. Kimberly is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kimberly against Kymberli, 1880 to 2025 0 10k 20k 30k 40k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kimberly Kymberli

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

Kimberly has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1933 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Kimberly had 8,929 and Kymberli had 31.

Side by side

  Kimberly Kymberli
Total US births 850,666582
Most in one year 34,24331
Babies in 2025 1,009under 5
Estimated living today 792,000560
Median age today 5134
Peak year 19701992
Best rank 3rd girls3,503rd girls
Rank in 2025 302ndunranked
First recorded 19331961
Girls / boys 846,393 / 4,273582 / 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 Kimberlys alive today are over 51; half the Kymberlis are over 34. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kimberly and Kymberli.