girls:
17.6k births since 1947
#1115 (81st percentile)
overall:
17.6k births since 1947
#1941 (75th percentile)
The name Kimberlee is the #1,941 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,642 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 74.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,115 (80.5% percentile) for all time with 17,642 births since 1947.
Kimberlee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (first recorded for girls in 1947).
For girls, Kimberlee reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 51.2% percentile (ranked #378) with 314 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 324 births per million (ranked 50.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kimberlee ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kimberlee".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kimberlee is pronounced as KIHM-ber-lee, which has 3 syllables.
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