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Kimberley vs Kimberlynn

American parents have registered 38,278 Kimberleys since 1880, against 1,113 Kimberlynns. Kimberley is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kimberley Kimberlynn

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 84 years in which either name was published, Kimberley for 73 years and Kimberlynn for 11 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Kimberley Kimberlynn
Total US births 38,2781,113
Most in one year 2,00862
Babies in 2025 2120
Estimated living today 35,0001,100
Median age today 5613
Peak year 19672013
Best rank 166th girls2,769th girls
Rank in 2025 5,722nd5,917th
First recorded 19411958
Girls / boys 38,043 / 2351,113 / 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 Kimberlynns are over 13. That is 43 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 Kimberlynn.