Kimbley

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kimbley has been given to 573 babies in the U.S. since 1959. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Kimbley, 1987

1 in 515,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kimbley?

Kimbley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 515,000
7 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 248,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
356,979 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kimbley 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 1987 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 356,979 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimbley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimbleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimbley was born before 1972 — so the typical Kimbley is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
53.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
573
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Choose a decade

1970s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (307).

Is Kimbley 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (38)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,114
1969

Spellings of Kimbley

Kimbley is not the most common spelling — Kinsley is, with 35.2% against Kimbley's 0.40%.

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 Kimbley is used

Across 1910–2025, Kimbley was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 551,613 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7South Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Kimbley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kimbley by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,114
1969
Peak year
1976
38 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
573
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kimbley

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

Sibling names for Kimbley

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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