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Kimberlyn

#3,806 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Kimberly

Kimberlyn has been given to 3,926 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #3,806 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Kimberlyn, 2025

1 in 85,000

Kimberlyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kimberlyn: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Kimberly

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kimberlyn means

Kimberlyn is a elaboration of Kimberly.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kimberlyn is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɪm.bəɹ.lɪn/ and /ˈkɪm.bə.lɪn/ for Kimberlyn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kimberlyn → Kimberly → Kimberley. The family’s meaning is “royal + fortress”, recorded in English with the source elements cyne- and burh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kimberly.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,926 girls were recorded with the name Kimberlyn between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,179 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,715 in 2020 to #3,806 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,181 in 2015 to #3,806 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 Kimberlyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,806
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kimberlyn 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimberlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimberlyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimberlyn was born before 1996 — so the typical Kimberlyn is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,926
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (801).

Is Kimberlyn 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
−372
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−91
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,625
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.2%
Peak was 1993 (121)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,179
1967

Spellings of Kimberlyn

Kimberlyn is not the most common spelling — Kimberly is, with 91.0% against Kimberlyn'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 Kimberlyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Kimberlyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 89,199 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 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. Kimberlyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kimberlyn around the world

Where Kimberlyn 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
    1992–1995
    #2,277
    in 1995

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

Notable people named Kimberlyn

People whose public names include Kimberlyn, 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.

Kimberlyn in other languages

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

KimberlyKimberlin

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

Kimberlyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,806
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 91
Best rank ever
#1,179
1967
Peak year
1993
121 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,926
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Kimberlyn

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

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Names with a curve like Kimberlyn

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

BronwynCaterinaMyriamIleanaShayneSilvanaAnnamariaLanaeBrigidGiselaKaylenePeri

Sibling names for Kimberlyn

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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