Kimball
Kimball is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 911th, in 1954.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195466 births
- Best rank
- #911in 1954
- Since 1914
- 2,141people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,001 boys have been named Kimball in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 66 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1950s alone account for 23%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 140 girls have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kimball | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 46 | |
| 1920s | 76 | |
| 1930s | 36 | |
| 1940s | 185 | |
| 1950s | 469 | |
| 1960s | 304 | |
| 1970s | 147 | |
| 1980s | 122 | |
| 1990s | 151 | |
| 2000s | 245 | |
| 2010s | 171 | |
| 2020s | 49 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Kimball was the 911th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Kimball
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mickaelpeak 1955
- Alanpeak 1955
- Gilpeak 1957
- Dannielpeak 1959
- Mickelpeak 1957
- Randpeak 1952
- Eddypeak 1956
- Stevanpeak 1953
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.