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Kymberly

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kymberly has been given to 3,046 babies in the U.S. since 1955. 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 1987, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Kymberly, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kymberly: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kymberly means

Kymberly is a given name.

The naming story behind Kymberly

Wikidata records Kymberly as a given name. The entity identifier is Q67200896, 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, 3,046 girls were recorded with the name Kymberly between 1955 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 109 in 1987; its best national rank was #1,288 in 1987.

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 Kymberly?

Kymberly had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kymberly 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kymberly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kymberlys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kymberly was born before 1987 — so the typical Kymberly is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,046
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (817).

Is Kymberly 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 1987 (109)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,288
1987

Spellings of Kymberly

Kymberly is not the most common spelling — Kimberly is, with 92.2% against Kymberly's 0.33%.

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 Kymberly is used

Across 1910–2025, Kymberly was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 134,730 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Kymberly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kymberly around the world

Where Kymberly 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1998–1998
    #664
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1962–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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

Kymberly in other languages

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

KimberlyKimberleeKimberley

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

Kymberly 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
#1,288
1987
Peak year
1987
109 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,046
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kymberly

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

TimberlyKymberWaverlyKymaniEmberlyKymoraAmberlyKymberliCharlyKemberlyKymberleeSherlyMarlyKymariAverlyKymoniPearlyKinberlyKarlyKymberlieEmerlyKimerlyRiverlyMayerly

Names with a curve like Kymberly

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

SeanLeighannLarisaBrettNidiaMarikaLachelleAleshiaAprylJameeLorinBritta

Sibling names for Kymberly

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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