girls:
232 births since 1955
#5484 (4th percentile)
boys:
601 births since 1913
#3985 (13th percentile)
overall:
833 births since 1913
#6906 (11th percentile)
The name Kimble is the #6,906 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 833 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 10.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,985 (13.1% percentile) for all time with 601 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,484 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 232 births since 1955.
Kimble first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1955 for girls). Birth data for Kimble is available in 66 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (58 years for boys and 26 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 Kimble has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kimble were boys.
For boys, Kimble reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #611) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 18 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kimble ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 21.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kimble reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #741) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kimble".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kimble is pronounced as KIHM-buhl, which has 2 syllables.
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