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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 0.00000335 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 0.000008252 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 0.000099639 315 29 83%
1949 399 0.0001145 362 37 81%
1950 484 0.000138151 445 39 84%
1951 582 0.000157991 487 95 67%
1952 1058 0.000278565 966 92 83%
1953 1552 0.000402739 1428 124 84%
1954 2233 0.000560955 2089 144 87%
1955 4039 0.001005961 3862 177 91%
1956 6892 0.001671564 6731 161 95%
1957 9606 0.002285786 9450 156 97%
1958 10852 0.002625844 10712 140 97%
1959 12893 0.003101723 12783 110 98%
1960 16947 0.004079396 16851 96 99%
1961 17468 0.00421838 17357 111 99%
1962 20438 0.005065119 20358 80 99%
1963 21317 0.005384998 21228 89 99%
1964 24228 0.006232006 24130 98 99%
1965 28957 0.007986761 28836 121 99%
1966 32346 0.009306512 32230 116 99%
1967 33214 0.009783181 33098 116 99%
1968 32019 0.009477123 31908 111 99%
1969 33197 0.009551318 33081 116 99%
1970 34249 0.009495598 34136 113 99%
1971 30804 0.008974264 30702 102 99%
1972 26375 0.008390812 26284 91 99%
1973 23628 0.007831307 23532 96 99%
1974 22519 0.007407064 22424 95 99%
1975 20342 0.006736364 20260 82 99%
1976 19025 0.00626929 18964 61 99%
1977 18368 0.005782095 18287 81 99%
1978 16951 0.005340258 16878 73 99%
1979 17703 0.005320509 17639 64 99%
1980 18582 0.005394156 18499 83 99%
1981 16744 0.004839883 16689 55 99%
1982 16174 0.004610368 16101 73 99%
1983 15436 0.00445684 15370 66 99%
1984 14505 0.004157666 14445 60 99%
1985 14967 0.004193595 14913 54 99%
1986 14480 0.004070902 14416 64 99%
1987 13086 0.003629516 13030 56 99%
1988 12001 0.003248114 11948 53 99%
1989 11097 0.002886609 11034 63 99%
1990 10227 0.002587734 10191 36 99%
1991 9829 0.0025235 9799 30 99%
1992 8928 0.002324417 8894 34 99%
1993 7993 0.002120169 7966 27 99%
1994 8783 0.002362701 8746 37 99%
1995 7764 0.002120218 7745 19 100%
1996 7200 0.00197427 7175 25 99%
1997 6190 0.001707338 6182 8 100%
1998 5737 0.001559823 5721 16 99%
1999 5471 0.001481204 5458 13 100%
2000 5253 0.001389823 5243 10 100%
2001 4891 0.001306673 4880 11 100%
2002 4798 0.001283645 4790 8 100%
2003 4841 0.001273358 4825 16 99%
2004 4866 0.001273702 4846 20 99%
2005 4759 0.00123798 4751 8 100%
2006 5019 0.001268925 5007 12 100%
2007 5117 0.001280323 5101 16 99%
2008 4827 0.001228423 4812 15 99%
2009 4227 0.001106885 4227 100%
2010 3880 0.00105023 3871 9 100%
2011 3811 0.001042308 3811 100%
2012 3325 0.000909535 3315 10 99%
2013 3108 0.00085299 3103 5 100%
2014 2901 0.000783168 2901 100%
2015 2848 0.000770065 2842 6 100%
2016 2331 0.000635867 2331 100%
2017 1837 0.000514169 1837 100%
2018 1705 0.000485513 1705 100%
2019 1540 0.000444339 1534 6 99%
2020 1558 0.000467309 1558 100%
2021 1353 0.00040033 1347 6 99%
2022 1384 0.000411672 1384 100%