Kimberly

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Kimberley in ES Spain, NZ New Zealand.

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●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Kimberly is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name843K records spelled Kimberly45 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, France, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Kímberly, Kïmbërly, K'Imberly, Kïmberly, Kimbërly

• a separate given name606K records spelled Kimberly3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Kim-Berly, Kímberly

• Polish given name35K records spelled Kimberly47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Kimberley, Kimberlee, Кимберли, Кімберлі, Kimberli

• a separate given name4.1K records spelled Kimberly2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines

  Also written Kímbērlÿ

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●

Kimberly is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• De los campos del rey

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 93 years between 1933–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Kim Reynoldsb. 1959USnot in their usual nameGovernor of Iowa since 2017
• Kimberly Peirceb. 1967USAmerican film director
• Kimberly Guilfoyleb. 1969USAmerican attorney and political campaign advisor (born 1969)
• Kim Raverb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer
• Cat Ellingtonb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican songwriter, casting director, poet, author, researcher, voice actress, and entrepreneur (born 1970)
• Lil' Kimb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper from New York
• Kimberly Stewartb. 1979USAmerican model
• Kim Kardashianb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican media personality, businesswoman, model and actress (born 1980)
• Kimberly Wyattb. 1982USAmerican dancer and choreographer
• Kayden Krossb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 912 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kimberly?

We estimate roughly 745 thousand people bear Kimberly (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Kimberly have the most bearers?

We estimate about 695 thousand people bear Kimberly in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kimberly.

Where is Kimberly most common?

Kimberly is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 479 people carrying it.

How common is Kimberly compared with other names?

In the United States, Kimberly is the 57th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Kimberly a male or female name?

Kimberly 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 Kimberly mean?

Recorded meaning: Kimberly är ursprungligen ett engelskt ortnamn (Kimberley) som kommit att användas som släktnamn och senare förnamn.