Kimber

Where Kimber comes from

* From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburg, from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”). * English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa (“warrior”) (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn (“grove/wood”). It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kimber
  • Old English
Along the way
  1. 1951
    First appearance
    #4,833 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1988
    Kimber James born
    American transsexual pornographic actress
  4. 2016
    Peak, #592
    516 babies named Kimber — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Kimber James · American transsexual pornographic actress, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.