Kimberly Girl Name

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The name Kimberly is of English origin, and is derived from the name of a city in South Africa. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kimberly has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kimberly**
Use of the Name Kimberly for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
786,638	780,152	248,637	56,677	24,445	9,581	4,782

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kimberly has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kimberly first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1946, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kimberly**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1946	700	133
1947	526	253
1948	451	314
1949	413	364
1950	383	444
1951	365	488	709	95
1952	253	967	731	93
1953	210	1,425	641	123
1954	166	2,098	610	146
1955	110	3,863	551	179
1956	73	6,732	602	159
1957	42	9,446	614	156
1958	39	10,706	652	139
1959	33	12,781	730	110
1960	26	16,862	782	96
1961	22	17,334	726	112
1962	16	20,355	848	79
1963	11	21,232	806	88
1964	6	24,123	768	99
1965	4	28,828	677	120
1966	2	32,208	694	114
1967	2	33,090	685	118
1968	3	31,900	715	111
1969	4	33,056	723	116
1970	3	34,108	771	115
1971	4	30,670	800	101
1972	4	26,285	842	91
1973	4	23,520	812	95
1974	6	22,411	828	95
1975	7	20,260	908	82
1976	7	18,964
1977	8	18,284	957	80
1978	13	16,862
1979	12	17,635
1980	11	18,487	998	82
1981	13	16,681
1982	14	16,087
1983	15	15,364
1984	22	14,435
1985	19	14,908
1986	18	14,405
1987	21	13,028
1988	25	11,937
1989	28	11,044
1990	31	10,186
1991	34	9,799
1992	35	8,894
1993	39	7,960
1994	32	8,745
1995	37	7,737
1996	41	7,172
1997	49	6,173
1998	54	5,710
1999	51	5,440
2000	58	5,232
2001	61	4,866
2002	63	4,766
2003	64	4,799
2004	61	4,782
Totals:		786,638		2,994

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kimberly as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Kimberly appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 59 times during the last 125 years.

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Kimberly Girl Name

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