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Kimberlea vs Kimora

American parents have registered 9,869 Kimoras since 1880, against 531 Kimberleas. Kimora is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kimberlea 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 70 years in which either name was published, Kimberlea for 41 years and Kimora for 29 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kimberlea Kimora
Total US births 5319,869
Most in one year 221,145
Babies in 2025 under 5201
Estimated living today 4909,800
Median age today 5415
Peak year 19702008
Best rank 3,030th girls291st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,150th
First recorded 19541990
Girls / boys 531 / 09,869 / 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 Kimberleas alive today are over 54; half the Kimoras are over 15. That is 39 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: Kimberlea and Kimora.