Kimberleigh

#14,100 in 2025Girls' name

Royal + fortress, through Kimberley

Kimberleigh has been given to 741 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #14,100 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Kimberleigh, 2025

1 in 553,000

Kimberleigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kimberleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Royal + fortress, through Kimberley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kimberleigh means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kimberleigh is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kimberley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 741 girls were recorded with the name Kimberleigh between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1995; its best national rank was #3,202 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,326 in 2020 to #14,100 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,883 in 2015 to #14,100 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 Kimberleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 553,000; 6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 268,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #14,100; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 382,984 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kimberleigh 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimberleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimberleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimberleigh was born before 1991 — so the typical Kimberleigh is around 34 today.

Median birth year: 1991; About 34 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 28.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 741; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Kimberleigh 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: +226; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,783; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.20×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 23.1%; Peak was 1995 (26)
Years since peak: 30; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,202; 1966

Spellings of Kimberleigh

Kimberleigh is not the most common spelling — Emberleigh is, with 44.2% against Kimberleigh's 31.3%.

Emberleigh44.2%1,046
Kimberleigh31.3%741
Amberleigh24.5%580

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 Kimberleigh is used

Across 1910–2025, Kimberleigh was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,212,673 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Florida1 in —
2Illinois1 in —

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

Kimberleigh around the world

Where Kimberleigh 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
1996–2009
#5,556
in 2009
Scotland
1987–1990
#615
in 1990
South Australia
1962–2002
#730
in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kimberleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #14,100
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 226
Best rank ever: #3,202; 1966
Peak year: 1995; 26 that year
First recorded: 1956
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 741
Count in 2025: 6

Names similar to Kimberleigh

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

Sibling names for Kimberleigh

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

For a sister

Salena Danyelle Breonna Breann Allyssa Maranda Shanice Halie

For a brother

Elizabeth Coty Brandan Jarod Samual Trever Mitchel Madison

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