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Kimberley vs Kimberli

American parents have registered 38,278 Kimberleys since 1880, against 3,942 Kimberlis. Kimberley is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kimberley against Kimberli, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kimberley Kimberli

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

Kimberley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1941 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Kimberley had 67 and Kimberli had 61.

Side by side

  Kimberley Kimberli
Total US births 38,2783,942
Most in one year 2,008163
Babies in 2025 219
Estimated living today 35,0003,700
Median age today 5651
Peak year 19671968
Best rank 166th girls783rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,722nd10,107th
First recorded 19411951
Girls / boys 38,043 / 2353,942 / 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 Kimberleys alive today are over 56; half the Kimberlis are over 51. That is 5 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: Kimberley and Kimberli.