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How popular is the name Kimberley?

Births per year, rank history and how many Kimberleys are alive today.

Kimberley (female), once a common girls' name, is now rarely given to new babies in England and Wales: just 13 in 2025, ranked 2138th. This spelling of the name peaked in 1984, when around 820 babies were given the name, the 43rd most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 1996, with 799 babies given the name that year. It has declined since 1984; the 2025 figure is roughly 2% of its peak. At least 14,000 babies have been named Kimberley in England and Wales since 1984. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Kimberley is one spelling of a name also recorded as Kimberly; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Kimberley include Kim.

Across all spellings of the name, the Kimberley you are most likely to meet is around 31 years old. Half of all Kimberleys born in England and Wales are between 29 and 43, and there are at least 21,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 6.5% chance that at least one of them will be called Kimberley.

How many babies are named Kimberley each year?

Includes all spellings: Kimberley, Kimberly. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Kimberley spelling rank?

Where does the Kimberly spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.