Kymber
Feminine · “Cyneburg's wood or clearing”
Kimberley is a diamond town in South Africa, named after a British colonial secretary, and the name came back to English-speaking countries as a woman's name in the twentieth century. Behind the peer's title is an English place name meaning the wood or clearing of a woman called Cyneburg.
How old is the name Kymber?
Kymber first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Kymber is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Kymber are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kymber most popular?
Kymber peaked in 2014, reaching #2412 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, 2,687 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cyneburg-leah to Kymber
The story of Kymber
Diamonds were found in the northern Cape in 1871 and the mining camp was named Kimberley for the colonial secretary of the day. The siege of the town during the South African War made the name familiar across the English-speaking world, and it began being given to daughters shortly afterward, becoming enormously popular in the United States in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Kimber and Kymber are clippings from the last two decades.
Meaning
Cyneburg's wood or clearing
The English place name Kimberley is generally read as the leah, a clearing, belonging to a woman named Cyneburg, whose own name joins Old English cyne, royal, to burh, a fortress. The South African town took the name from a British earl who took it from the English village.
How the name formed
- Cyneburg-leah
- Kimberley
- Kimber
- Kymber
Related forms: Kimberly · Kimber
Pronouncing Kymber
KIM-bur
Two syllables, stress in front. The y changes nothing about the sound.
Nicknames for Kymber
Moderate
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 201475 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2412reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −19.4%25 in 2025, from 31
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.
Kymber in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kimberly in English — related form
- Kimber in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma.
Kymbers among us
people named Kymber are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Kymber
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kymber
- #5099
- Kymber on the 2025 chart
- #668
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kymber went to 25 girls in 2025, but Kimber is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 303, which makes it the 668th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,431 places above the chart.
- Kimber278
- Kymber25
About 1 girl in 5,305 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 64,291 for Kymber itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alexes test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kymber's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alexes climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alexes's path sketches the road Kymber is walking now.
Kymber sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kymber is headed
Kymber is easing off slowly — about 24% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kymber beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kymber in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kim is available as a short form and is instantly familiar everywhere.
- The meaning traces to a named Anglo-Saxon woman, which is a rare and specific thing.
- Two syllables with the stress in front sit well against most surnames.
- Kimber is the commoner spelling and this one will be corrected often.
- Kimberly is very heavily used for an older generation, which colors how the short form reads.
- The town it comes from has a complicated colonial and mining history.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kymbers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Kymber are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kymber?
- Kymber is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kimber is the more common one — 278 births in 2025 against 25 for Kymber.
- How popular is the name Kymber in 2025?
- Kymber ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kymber?
- About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Kymber — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kymber with classmates?
- Kymber will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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