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Kymberlee vs Kymberli

American parents have registered 875 Kymberlees since 1880, against 582 Kymberlis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kymberlee 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

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Kymberlee for 44 years and Kymberli for 14 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Kymberlee Kymberli
Total US births 875582
Most in one year 3931
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 850560
Median age today 3034
Peak year 19921992
Best rank 2,974th girls3,503rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19621961
Girls / boys 875 / 0582 / 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 Kymberlis alive today are over 34; half the Kymberlees are over 30. That is 4 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: Kymberlee and Kymberli.