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Kimberli

#10,516 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kimberli has been given to 3,942 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #10,516 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1968, with 163 recorded.

Babies named Kimberli, 2025

1 in 368,000

Kimberli over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kimberli: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kimberli means

Kimberli is a given name.

The naming story behind Kimberli

Wikidata records Kimberli as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q1108651, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,942 girls were recorded with the name Kimberli between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 163 in 1968; its best national rank was #785 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,498 in 2020 to #10,516 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,823 in 2015 to #10,516 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.

How common is Kimberli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,516
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kimberli 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimberli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimberlis were born

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

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,942
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (1,249).

Is Kimberli 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
−3,090
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,018
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−693
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.5%
Peak was 1968 (163)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#785
1968

Spellings of Kimberli

Kimberli is not the most common spelling — Kimberly is, with 90.3% against Kimberli's 0.42%.

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 Kimberli is used

Across 1910–2025, Kimberli was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 76,164 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Kimberli in other languages

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

KimberlyKimberleeKimberleyKimberlin

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

Kimberli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,516
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,018
Best rank ever
#785
1968
Peak year
1968
163 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,942
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Kimberli

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

KimberlynKimberlieKimberleeKimikoKimaniKimbellaKimoraKimberleKimberelyKimberKimmieKimberlynnKimayaKimorahKimberleyKimimilaKimberlinKimaraKimariKimmyKimyattaKimiMarliCharli

Names with a curve like Kimberli

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

BarbieDedraMechelleDelisaShaunEvetteLoriannBethannVelvetMelonyReneaLinette

Sibling names for Kimberli

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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