girls:
140 births since 1951
#5576 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1914
#2819 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1914
#5661 (27th percentile)
The name Kimball is the #5,661 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,126 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 26.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,819 (38.5% percentile) for all time with 1,986 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,576 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 140 births since 1951.
Kimball first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1951 for girls). Birth data for Kimball is available in 104 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (104 years for boys and 20 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kimball has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kimball reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #555) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 32 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kimball ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 10.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kimball reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #756) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kimball".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kimball. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Kimball is pronounced as KIHM-buhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KIHM-bawl, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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