How popular is “Kimberly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kimberly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kimberly” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kimberly” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kimberly” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kimberly” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kimberly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kimberly” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1933	7	0.000003501	7		100%
1934	6	0.000002889	6		100%
1935	7	0.000003349	7		100%
1936	5	0.000002407	5		100%
1937	6	0.000002816	6		100%
1938	10	0.00000452	10		100%
1939	11	0.000004992	11		100%
1940	19	0.000008251	14	5	47%
1941	24	0.000009851	24		100%
1942	25	0.000009152	25		100%
1943	18	0.000006377	18		100%
1944	26	0.000009665	21	5	62%
1945	26	0.000009801	26		100%
1946	136	0.000042563	130	6	91%
1947	266	0.000073843	255	11	92%
1948	344	0.000099638	315	29	83%
1949	399	0.000114499	362	37	81%
1950	484	0.000138153	445	39	84%
1951	581	0.000157721	486	95	67%
1952	1058	0.000278567	966	92	83%
1953	1552	0.000402739	1428	124	84%
1954	2232	0.000560708	2088	144	87%
1955	4039	0.00100597	3862	177	91%
1956	6892	0.001671583	6731	161	95%
1957	9608	0.002286497	9452	156	97%
1958	10852	0.002624902	10712	140	97%
1959	12897	0.003102686	12787	110	98%
1960	16946	0.004079519	16850	96	99%
1961	17468	0.004217334	17357	111	99%
1962	20440	0.0050659	20360	80	99%
1963	21316	0.005385097	21227	89	99%
1964	24228	0.00623218	24130	98	99%
1965	28958	0.007987354	28837	121	99%
1966	32347	0.00930696	32231	116	99%
1967	33213	0.009783253	33097	116	99%
1968	32018	0.009477371	31907	111	99%
1969	33189	0.009549832	33073	116	99%
1970	34246	0.009495628	34133	113	99%
1971	30806	0.008975364	30704	102	99%
1972	26375	0.008391616	26284	91	99%
1973	23627	0.007831673	23531	96	99%
1974	22519	0.007407566	22424	95	99%
1975	20340	0.006736498	20258	82	99%
1976	19022	0.006268966	18961	61	99%
1977	18366	0.005781996	18285	81	99%
1978	16949	0.005340253	16876	73	99%
1979	17703	0.005321072	17639	64	99%
1980	18583	0.005394993	18500	83	99%
1981	16744	0.004840238	16689	55	99%
1982	16175	0.004610967	16102	73	99%
1983	15436	0.004457052	15370	66	99%
1984	14506	0.004158048	14446	60	99%
1985	14967	0.004193641	14913	54	99%
1986	14481	0.004071189	14417	64	99%
1987	13086	0.003629465	13030	56	99%
1988	12002	0.003248296	11949	53	99%
1989	11101	0.002887628	11038	63	99%
1990	10227	0.002587642	10191	36	99%
1991	9829	0.002523435	9799	30	99%
1992	8930	0.002324867	8896	34	99%
1993	7992	0.002119818	7965	27	99%
1994	8783	0.002362621	8746	37	99%
1995	7764	0.002120141	7745	19	100%
1996	7200	0.001974202	7175	25	99%
1997	6190	0.001707289	6182	8	100%
1998	5737	0.001559778	5721	16	99%
1999	5470	0.001480881	5457	13	100%
2000	5253	0.001389759	5243	10	100%
2001	4891	0.001306613	4880	11	100%
2002	4798	0.001283528	4790	8	100%
2003	4841	0.001273272	4825	16	99%
2004	4866	0.001273611	4846	20	99%
2005	4759	0.001237857	4751	8	100%
2006	5022	0.00126953	5010	12	100%
2007	5118	0.001280378	5102	16	99%
2008	4828	0.001228468	4813	15	99%
2009	4228	0.001106953	4228		100%
2010	3880	0.001050026	3871	9	100%
2011	3811	0.001042067	3811		100%
2012	3326	0.000909576	3316	10	99%
2013	3108	0.000852721	3103	5	100%
2014	2901	0.000782908	2901		100%
2015	2849	0.000770031	2843	6	100%
2016	2332	0.000635852	2332		100%
2017	1838	0.000514167	1838		100%
2018	1705	0.000485181	1705		100%
2019	1542	0.000444535	1536	6	99%
2020	1558	0.000466768	1558		100%
2021	1355	0.000400332	1349	6	99%
2022	1391	0.000411708	1391		100%
2023	1329	0.000403064	1329		100%