Kimberley
Kimberley is a girl's name that peaked in 1967, when it was the 166th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 35,000 Kimberleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kimberley boys named Kimberley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 38,278
- Estimated living today
- 35,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 166th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1941
- Girls / boys
- 38,043 / 235
How old the living Kimberleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 38,278 babies given the name since 1941, about 35,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 750 of them are children and 4,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname, a place name
English place name "wood or clearing of Kyneburga (a seventh century female saint)", from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”) + lēah (“leigh, clearing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kimberleys
- Kimberley Walsh (born 1981)British singer and actress
- Kimberley Bos (born 1993)skeleton racer from the Netherlands
- Kimberley Nixon (born 1985)British actress
- Kimberley Joseph (born 1973)Australian film director
- Kimberley Le Court (born 1996)Mauritian cyclist
- Kimberley Locke (born 1978)American singer-songwriter
- Kimberley Woods (born 1995)British slalom canoeist
- Kimberley Santos (born 1961)Miss World
People named Kimberley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kimberley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kimberley is most concentrated in Vermont (1.7×), Washington (1.6×), Oregon (1.6×), Massachusetts (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular girls’ names the year Kimberley peaked:
Kimberley elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Kimberley | 6,860 | 115th |
| England and Wales girls | Kimberley | 5,202 | 73rd |
| Scotland girls | Kimberley | 3,585 | 26th |
| New Zealand girls | Kimberley | 1,578 | 27th |
| Belgium girls | Kimberley | 1,370 | 30th |
| Ireland girls | Kimberley | 289 | 221st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kimberley | 42 | 245th |
| Poland girls | Kimberley | 11 birth registrations | 409th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kimberley: rank by region
In 2016, Kimberley was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Kimberley | 506 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kimberley among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Kimberley | 5,668 | 6,783 |
| the Netherlands boys | Kimberley | 5 | 18 |
| Finland girls | Kimberley | — | 11 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Kimberley against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.