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Kymari vs Kymberly

American parents have registered 3,046 Kymberlys since 1880, against 746 Kymaris. But in 2025 it was Kymari that was commoner, 63 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kymari against Kymberly, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kymari Kymberly

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 71 years in which either name was published, Kymberly for 52 years and Kymari for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kymari Kymberly
Total US births 7463,046
Most in one year 63109
Babies in 2025 63under 5
Estimated living today 7402,900
Median age today 938
Peak year 20251987
Best rank 2,363rd boys1,280th girls
Rank in 2025 2,363rdunranked
First recorded 20001955
Girls / boys 220 / 5263,046 / 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 Kymberlys alive today are over 38; half the Kymaris are over 9. That is 29 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kymari Kymberly
England and Wales 2725

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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