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Kimberlee

#4,704 in 2025Girls' name

Royal + fortress, through Kimberley

Kimberlee has been given to 17,690 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #4,704 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 576 recorded.

Babies named Kimberlee, 2025

1 in 114,000

Kimberlee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kimberlee: meaning, origin, and history

Royal + fortress, through Kimberley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kimberlee means

Kimberlee belongs to the name family reached through Kimberlee → Kimberley. Its meaning is “royal + fortress”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kimberlee is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kimberley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17,690 girls were recorded with the name Kimberlee between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 576 in 1970; its best national rank was #396 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,118 in 2020 to #4,704 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,793 in 2015 to #4,704 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kimberlee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,704
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kimberlee 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimberlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimberlees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimberlee was born before 1973 — so the typical Kimberlee is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
17,646
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (4,832).

Is Kimberlee 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
+519
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−586
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,911
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.0%
Peak was 1970 (576)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#396
1969

Spellings of Kimberlee

Kimberlee is not the most common spelling — Kimberly is, with 91.9% against Kimberlee's 1.9%.

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 Kimberlee is used

Across 1910–2025, Kimberlee was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 11,358 across all states with data. It was least common in Rhode Island (1 in 100,000).

144 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,273
  2. 2Oregon1 in 4,348
  3. 3Washington1 in 4,545
  4. 4California1 in 6,250
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 7,143
  6. 6Michigan1 in 7,143
  7. 7Colorado1 in 7,692
  8. 8Idaho1 in 8,333

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. Kimberlee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kimberlee around the world

Where Kimberlee 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • France
    1996–2006
    #6,475
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1969–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kimberlee

People whose public names include Kimberlee, 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.

Kimberlee in other languages

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

KimberliKimberlyKymberlyKimberley

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

Kimberlee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,704
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 586
Best rank ever
#396
1969
Peak year
1970
576 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
17,690
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Kimberlee

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

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Names with a curve like Kimberlee

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

RenaeDeidreTamraDarcyLeannDeenaFeleciaAnnmarieValarieGenaKarynCaryn

Sibling names for Kimberlee

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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