Kimberly
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kimberly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 47th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Kimberly är ursprungligen ett engelskt ortnamn (Kimberley) som kommit att användas som släktnamn och senare förnamn.
- CNChina≈1 in 346(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 352
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 458
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #144 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 635 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 346 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kimberley in NZ New Zealand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kimberly är ursprungligen ett engelskt ortnamn (Kimberley) som kommit att användas som släktnamn och senare förnamn. Förleden i ortnamnet Kimberley innehåller ett personnamn; efterleden innehåller fornengelskt lēah ’skog; äng; röjning’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kimberly counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈4,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 346 | — | Kimberly | 43 |
| US United States | #56 | 696,165 | 1 in 478 | 695K | Kimberly | 635 |
| GB United Kingdom | #101 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | 3 | Kimberly | 254 |
| EG Egypt | #464 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Kimberly | 25 |
| PH Philippines | #334 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Kimberly | 156 |
| CA Canada | #74 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 522 | 4 | Kimberly | 279 |
| IE Ireland | #51 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 352 | — | Kimberly | 56 |
| SG Singapore | #47 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Kimberly | 98 |
| NZ New Zealand | #377 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 458 | 12 | Kimberley | 109 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 92 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 695K | #51 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #51 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1K | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 34 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2004 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 4 | #938 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2021 | 1 | #2,059 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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 are other forms of the name Kimberly?
- In the etymology graph, Kimberley, Kimberlee and Kimberleigh are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kimberly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 million people named Kimberly in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kimberly.
- How common is the name Kimberly?
- In the United States, the national register counted 696,165 people named Kimberly in 2020, about 1 in 478 residents.
- How common is Kimberly compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Kimberly is the 47th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Kimberly mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kimberly är ursprungligen ett engelskt ortnamn (Kimberley) som kommit att användas som släktnamn och senare förnamn.
What do you want to know about Kimberly?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kimberlyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kimberly” — the 47th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.