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Kimberley
Pronounced /ˈkɪmbəli/
Rank in 2024
#5,062
Born in 2024
26
Peak year
1967 · #166
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 26 girls were named Kimberley, about 1 in every 62,046.
- It peaked in 1967 with 2,003 babies, ranked #166.
- It first shows up in the records in 1941.
- 38,021 girls have been named Kimberley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kimberley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.8Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 20 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,077 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen X: 20,135 babies, 0.79 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,876 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,515 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 398 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
English place name "wood or clearing of Kyneburga (a seventh century female saint)", from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”) + lēah (“leigh, clearing”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname or place name (site of a battle in the Boer Wars).
- A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kimberly, popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɪmbəli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kimberley, CC BY-SA 4.0.