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Kimbra

Girls' name

Diminutive of Kimberly

Kimbra has been given to 1,226 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1961, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Kimbra, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kimbra: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Kimberly

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kimbra means

Kimbra is a diminutive of Kimberly.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kimbra is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɪm.bɹə/ for Kimbra.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kimbra → 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, 1,226 girls were recorded with the name Kimbra between 1951 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,344 in 1959.

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 Kimbra?

Kimbra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kimbra 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimbra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimbras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimbra was born before 1967 — so the typical Kimbra is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,226
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (446).

Is Kimbra 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (68)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,344
1959

Spellings of Kimbra

Kimbra is not the most common spelling — Kiara is, with 29.9% against Kimbra's 0.64%.

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 Kimbra is used

Across 1910–2025, Kimbra was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 178,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Oregon1 in —
  7. 7Tennessee1 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. Kimbra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kimbra around the world

Where Kimbra 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.

  • South Australia
    1978–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kimbra 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
#1,344
1959
Peak year
1961
68 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,226
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kimbra

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

KimmieKimayaKimaniKimikoKimaraKimariKimmyKimyaKimiaKimoniKimorahKimiKimoraKimberKimoriKimiyaKimalaKimelaKimberliKimaKimerlyKimbellaKimberleKimbley

Sibling names for Kimbra

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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