Kimber
#936 for girls in 2025, 278 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 96.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 516 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,215since 1951
Kimber over time
Rank among girls' names. Kimber has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #936 | 278 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #908 | 292 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #883 | 304 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #775 | 367 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #682 | 426 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #685 | 415 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #598 | 508 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #599 | 509 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #602 | 501 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #592 | 516 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #629 | 453 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #627 | 456 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #665 | 430 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #790 | 344 | — | |
| 2011 | #981 | 261 | — | |
| 2010 | #969 | 263 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,054 | 245 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,331 | 185 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,257 | 196 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,403 | 161 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,264 | 77 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,043 | 49 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,845 | 80 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,826 | 80 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,492 | 106 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,166 | 152 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,345 | 123 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,264 | 135 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,087 | 166 | — | |
| 1990 | #981 | 188 | — | |
| 1989 | #968 | 180 | — | |
| 1988 | #788 | 239 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,075 | 142 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,447 | 88 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,536 | 79 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,703 | 64 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,158 | 47 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,128 | 48 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,387 | 39 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,938 | 50 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,027 | 43 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #2,516 | 31 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #1,805 | 47 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,448 | 67 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #1,613 | 58 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #1,544 | 63 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,440 | 66 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,324 | 70 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #1,336 | 67 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,385 | 63 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #1,156 | 85 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #1,103 | 98 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #1,290 | 73 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #1,234 | 79 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #1,268 | 76 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #1,266 | 75 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #1,244 | 74 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #1,395 | 58 | #2,177 | 14 |
| 1957 | #1,376 | 59 | #2,494 | 11 |
| 1956 | #1,470 | 52 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #1,978 | 29 | #1,979 | 16 |
| 1954 | #2,378 | 21 | #1,887 | 17 |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | #2,186 | 13 |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | — | #2,321 | 11 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kimber! It came in at #4,833, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kimber
- 28 spots since 2024 (#908 → #936)
- 251 spots since 2020 (#685 → #936)
- 307 spots since 2015 (#629 → #936)
- Biggest jump: 287 spots in 1988 (#1,075 → #788)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 1989 (#788 → #968)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2016 at #592 (516 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,304 girls born in 2019 were named Kimber (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,782 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #592 in 2016, was only 1 in 3,434 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.8% of all girls named Kimber (4,241) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 332 | #1,244 (1959) | #2,216 |
| 1960s | 752 | #1,103 (1964) | #1,280 |
| 1970s | 477 | #1,448 (1972) | #1,965 |
| 1980s | 989 | #788 (1988) | #1,585 |
| 1990s | 1,163 | #981 (1990) | #1,539 |
| 2000s | 1,179 | #1,054 (2009) | #2,047 |
| 2010s | 4,241 | #592 (2016) | #705 |
| 2020s | 2,082 | #682 (2021) | #812 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kimber in 1951
Top girls' names in 1951
Top boys' names in 1951
More about 1951
girls
1,800,859 girls got a published name in 1951; 1 in 300,143 of them was named Kimber, which outranked 22.2% of the 6,213 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,385Zanna7
- #4,385Zilla7
- #4,385Zinda7
- #4,833Kimber6
- #4,833Adah6
- #4,833Adelfa6
- #4,833Agapita6
- #5,414Abelina5
- #5,414Adlean5
- #5,414Adriene5
Tied with 580 names at #4,833; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,882,837 boys got a published name in 1951; 1 in 235,355 of them was named Kimber, which outranked 33.1% of the 4,253 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,662Vladimir9
- #2,662Weslie9
- #2,662Zachery9
- #2,844Kimber8
- #2,844Abelino8
- #2,844Abran8
- #2,844Albertus8
- #3,066Abbey7
- #3,066Abbott7
- #3,066Adair7
Tied with 221 names at #2,844; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.