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Kimberley

Kimberley means "Old English place name" and comes from Old English, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 8 of them.

Old EnglishOld English place name
Etymology"Cyneburg's meadow"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
197
1950s
4,211
1960s
16,344
1970s
10,141
1980s
3,788
1990s
2,083
2000s
906
2010s
415
Peaked in the 1960s · 38,085 total U.S. births since 1900