Kimbra

Last seen for girls in 2015 at #16,419

Peak · girls
1959 · 64 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,226
since 1951

Kimbra over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kimbra has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201951peak #1,337, 1959girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
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2015#16,4195
2014
2013#11,0009
2012#14,9626
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2006#17,1685
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2003#15,7845
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2001#13,5216
2000#15,0315
1999#10,3458
1998#12,4266
1997#13,7245
1996
1995#7,51411
1994#13,4305
1993#8,05210
1992#5,26718
1991#6,58813
1990#4,23023
1989#6,53112
1988#3,30629
1987#4,85716
1986#5,75712
1985#5,07714
1984#3,52723
1983#4,28617
1982#4,34717
1981#5,57112
1980#4,74315
1979#5,09213
1978#5,21412
1977#4,94213
1976#2,06042
1975#4,37014
1974#4,72012
1973#2,56528
1972#3,89415
1971#2,80125
1970#2,30733
1969#2,10236
1968#2,09133
1967#2,03933
1966#1,79640
1965#1,82939
1964#2,30628
1963#1,64948
1962#1,47657
1961#1,35468
1960#1,37364
1959#1,33764
1958#1,36460
1957#1,39857
1956#1,83534
1955#2,34122
1954#2,77916
1953#4,2268
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First appearance
1951

The first year at least five girls were named Kimbra! It came in at #5,414, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1951–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Kimbra
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2015
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1951
  • Peaked 1959 at #1,337 (64 births)
  • Births halved by 1964, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 29,684
  • Highest: 1 in 29,684 girls born in 1961 were named Kimbra (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 357,020 girls born in 2015 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,337 in 1959, was only 1 in 31,617 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 36.4% of all girls named Kimbra (446) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s266#1,337 (1959)#2,587
1960s446#1,354 (1961)#1,802
1970s207#2,060 (1976)#3,797
1980s167#3,306 (1988)#4,800
1990s99#4,230 (1990)#9,064
2000s21#13,521 (2001)#15,376
2010s20#11,000 (2013)#14,127

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.

Kimbra in 1951

girls
#5,414
5 births · 1 in 360,172 girls

Top girls' names in 1951

  1. #1Linda73,982
  2. #2Mary65,721
  3. #3Patricia56,446
  4. #4Deborah42,053
  5. #5Barbara40,617
  6. #6Susan40,228
  7. #7Nancy30,346
  8. #8Karen27,998
  9. #9Sandra27,665
  10. #10Kathleen26,716
  11. #5,414Kimbra5
More about 1951

girls

1,800,859 girls got a published name in 1951; 1 in 360,172 of them was named Kimbra, which outranked 12.9% 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).

Ranked beside Kimbra
  1. #4,833Zollie6
  2. #4,833Zonnie6
  3. #4,833Zorina6
  4. #5,414Kimbra5
  5. #5,414Abelina5
  6. #5,414Adlean5
  7. #5,414Adriene5

Tied with 799 names at #5,414; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1950
Risers
  1. 345Rhona#1,333#988
  2. 307Bobbi#1,153#846
  3. 296Ricki#1,090#794
  4. 295Mindy#771#476
  5. 288Sharleen#1,053#765
Fallers
  1. 395Sharman#668#1,063
  2. 343Manuela#773#1,116
  3. 294Allie#945#1,239
  4. 253Merrie#937#1,190
  5. 252Olive#891#1,143

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1951