Kimble
Masculine · “From an English place name”
Kimble is given to both — 601 boys and 232 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Kimble is an English surname and place name used as a first name, mostly for boys. It belongs to a doctor wrongly convicted of murder in one of television's great chases, and perhaps to a British king Shakespeare called Cymbeline.
How old is the name Kimble?
Kimble first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Kimble alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 400 people named Kimble are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kimble most popular?
Kimble peaked in 1966, reaching #1345 nationally. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cunobelinus to Kimble
The story of Kimble
Cunobelinus ruled much of southern Britain before the Roman invasion, and Shakespeare made him King Cymbeline; the Buckinghamshire villages of Great and Little Kimble are traditionally said to carry his name, though scholars disagree. In the television series The Fugitive, Dr. Richard Kimble, wrongly convicted of his wife's murder, escapes and spends four seasons searching for the one-armed man who did it; its final episode was one of the most watched broadcasts in American history. Kimble is recorded mostly for boys, with a real minority of girls.
Meaningscholars disagree
From an English place name, perhaps from the British king Cunobelinus
The villages of Great and Little Kimble are often said to take their name from Cunobelinus, a British king before the Roman conquest; the derivation is argued.
How the name formed
- Cunobelinus
- Kimble
Pronouncing Kimble
KIM-bul
Two syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Kimble
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 196632 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1345reached in 1966
- Change vs 2019
- +16.7%7 in 2023, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kimbles among us
people named Kimble are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Kimble sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A real English place name with an ancient echo.
- Comes with Kim as a ready short form.
- Rare, so a Kimble is unlikely to meet another.
- It sounds like the word nimble and the name Kimberly.
- Most children with this spelling are boys, but a real minority are girls; either may be taken for the other.
- As a surname-first name it may be taken for a last name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kimbles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Kimble are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kimble in 2025?
- Kimble is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Kimble with classmates?
- Kimble will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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