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Kimber

#936 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly royal + fortress

Kimber has been given to 11,666 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #936 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 516 recorded.

Babies named Kimber, 2025

1 in 11,900

Kimber over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kimber: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly royal + fortress

Old English

What Kimber means

Kimber may mean “royal + fortress”, associated with cyne- and burh.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburg, from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”). * English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa (“warrior”) (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn (“grove/wood”). It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.

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Origin, language, and formation

Kimber is used in English. Its origins include Old English.

Kimber comes through Old English cyne-.

Kimber is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kimbrough and Kinberg.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,215 girls were recorded with the name Kimber between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 516 in 2016; its best national rank was #593 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #685 in 2020 to #936 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #631 in 2015 to #936 in 2025.

In the United States, 451 boys were recorded with the name Kimber between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,926 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,153 in 2020 to #6,011 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,327 in 2015 to #6,011 in 2025.

How common is Kimber?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,900
278 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,780
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#936
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,267 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kimber sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,267 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimber. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimbers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimber was born before 2012 — so the typical Kimber is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,215
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (4,241).

Is Kimber rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−251
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−305
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.9%
Peak was 2016 (516)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#593
2016

Spellings of Kimber

Kimber is not the most common spelling — Kimberly is, with 66.8% against Kimber's 0.89%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kimber is used

Across 2016–2025, Kimber was most concentrated in Wyoming — about 1 in 321 girls, against 1 in 3,261 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

1312 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wyoming1 in 321
  2. 2Montana1 in 488
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 671
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 735
  5. 5Idaho1 in 741
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 787
  7. 7Kansas1 in 1,064
  8. 8Missouri1 in 1,136

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Kimber is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 97% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kimber around the world

Where Kimber ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kimber

People whose public names include Kimber, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kimber in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kimber. Linked forms have their own page here.

KimKimbleKimberly

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kimber by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#936
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 251
Best rank ever
#593
2016
Peak year
2016
516 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,215
Count in 2025
278

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,011
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 142
Best rank ever
#1,926
1954
Peak year
1954
17 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
451
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Kimber

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kimber

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kimber, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RenataCharleyRivkaMercyKamilahScarletKaiDaniChevelleLianaMilenaAnnalee

Sibling names for Kimber

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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