Kimberley

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kimberley is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Person from Kimberley, one of several English places; variously Cyneburg’s glade, Cynemær’s glade, etc.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 479◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 544
  • CACanada1 in 553

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈745K ●

across 9 countries

#277 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
578 ●

8.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 479 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

KimberlyLatin · English●7.8M records
קימברליHebrew · Hebrew●683 records
킴벌리Hangul · Korean●1 records
ᲙიმბერლიGeorgian · Georgian●1 records
คิมเบอร์ลThai · Thai●0 records

Locally spelled Kimberly in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 21 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Person from Kimberley, one of several English places; variously Cyneburg’s glade, Cynemær’s glade, etc.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kimberley is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#57694,6836.9M rec.1 in 479695KKimberly578
GB United Kingdom#88379,761360K rec.—3Kimberly201
CA Canada#78150,515142K rec.—4Kimberly219
AU Australia#149143,777124K rec.—86Kimberly196
NL Netherlands#26868,56315K rec.—5.7KKimberly106
PH Philippines#32066,87951K rec.——Kimberly140
IT Italy#20844,03743K rec.—47Kimberly72
DE Germany#51431,24530K rec.——Kimberly161
EC Ecuador#48021,261△660 rec.1 in 79521KKimberly36
RU Russia—17,69319K rec.——Kimberly39
IE Ireland#7716,49017K rec.——Kimberly48
EG Egypt#36914,89214K rec.——Kimberly22

Roughly 695K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 479). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English429K72%
  • French44K7%
  • 35K6%
  • Spanish17K3%
  • Western Frisian12K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English429,26472%
French44,0867%
34,7676%
Spanish17,2823%
Western Frisian12,4522%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kimberley is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name74K records spelled Kimberley21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kimbėrlĕy, Kimbërlëy, Kïmbërlëÿ, Kìmberleÿ, Kímbërlëy

  • German given name6.2K records spelled Kimberley2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

    Also written Kïmbërlëÿ

  • Polish given name974 records spelled Kimberley47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Kimberly, Kimberlee, Кимберли, Кімберлі, Kimberli

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Kimberley is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, From the English place name, originally 'Cyneburg's meadow' in Old English.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, from Kimberley, Norfolk/Nottinghamshire/Warwickshire; first attested William de Chineburlai 1161 P

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Any of several places:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Origine anglaise; signifie « prairie royale ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Old English; boy/girl

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K19601980200020202K · 1967

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Kimberley in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1941–2025
Yearrecords
19415
19425
19435
19445
194623
194740
194851
194956
195060
195173
1952120
1953191
1954272
1955384
1956596
1957720
1958789
1959892
19601,199
19611,210
19621,441
19631,412
19641,549
19651,799
19661,987
19672,003
19681,855
19691,806
19701,770
19711,610
19721,272
19731,091
19741,006
1975871
1976719
1977629
1978570
1979575
1980572
1981473
1982446
1983387
1984327
1985344
1986366
1987294
1988284
1989295
1990324
1991290
1992233
1993225
1994213
1995185
1996190
1997163
1998132
1999128
2000120
2001105
200273
200378
2004104
200589
200693
200798
200867
200979
201068
201163
201255
201360
201458
201544
201642
201725
201837
201926
202024
202122
202214
202320
202426
202521

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 84 years between 1941–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Kim Deal, b. 1961Kimberley Kates, b. 1969Kim Wilkins, b. 1970James Corden, b. 1978Kimberley Walsh, b. 1981Kimberley Nixon, b. 1985Kim Crow, b. 1985Emma Twigg, b. 1987Kimberley Bos, b. 1993
  • Kim Dealb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter; alternative rock musician
  • Kimberley Katesb. 1969USAmerican actress and film producer
  • Kim Wilkinsb. 1970AUnot in their usual nameAustralian writer (born 1966)
  • James Cordenb. 1978GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor, comedian, singer and television host (born 1978)
  • Kimberley Walshb. 1981GBBritish singer and actress
  • Kimberley Nixonb. 1985GBBritish actress
  • Kim Crowb. 1985AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rower
  • Emma Twiggb. 1987NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand rower (born 1987)
  • Kimberley Bosb. 1993NLskeleton racer from the Netherlands
  • Kimberley MotleyUSAmerican lawyer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 79 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Kimberley
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202033K#1,189
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20246.8K#2,106
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—5.7K#646
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020462#49,237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010454#46,811
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000444#45,403
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022167—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—157#1,644
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—152#28,880
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—133#7,017
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025132#462
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2017123#1,907

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 754 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kimberley?
We estimate roughly 745 thousand people bear Kimberley (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Kimberley have the most bearers?
We estimate about 695 thousand people bear Kimberley in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kimberly.
Where is Kimberley most common?
Kimberley is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 479 people carrying it.
How common is Kimberley compared with other names?
In the United States, Kimberley is the 57th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Kimberley a male or female name?
Kimberley is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Kimberley mean?
Recorded meaning: Person from Kimberley, one of several English places; variously Cyneburg’s glade, Cynemær’s glade, etc.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kimberley” — the 57th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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