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Kimberlee vs Kimora

American parents have registered 17,690 Kimberlees since 1880, against 9,869 Kimoras. But in 2025 it was Kimora that was commoner, 201 babies to 29.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kimberlee 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 79 years in which either name was published, Kimberlee for 56 years and Kimora for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kimberlee Kimora
Total US births 17,6909,869
Most in one year 5761,145
Babies in 2025 29201
Estimated living today 16,0009,800
Median age today 5115
Peak year 19702008
Best rank 404th girls291st girls
Rank in 2025 4,661st1,150th
First recorded 19471990
Girls / boys 17,690 / 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 Kimberlees alive today are over 51; half the Kimoras are over 15. That is 36 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 Kimberlee Kimora
England and Wales 12228
France 15180

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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Related comparisons

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