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Kimber vs Kimora

American parents have registered 11,666 Kimbers since 1880, against 9,869 Kimoras. Kimber is still ahead, with 293 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kimber against Kimora, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kimber Kimora

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 89 years in which either name was published, Kimber for 76 years and Kimora for 13 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Kimber Kimora
Total US births 11,6669,869
Most in one year 5241,145
Babies in 2025 293201
Estimated living today 11,0009,800
Median age today 1315
Peak year 20162008
Best rank 592nd girls291st girls
Rank in 2025 936th1,150th
First recorded 19141990
Girls / boys 11,215 / 4519,869 / 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 Kimoras alive today are over 15; half the Kimbers are over 13. That is 2 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: Kimber and Kimora.