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Kimber

Kimber: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“Cyneburh's meadow”
Origin
English
Say it
KIM-ber · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls (96% of all uses)

Kimber is an English surname and occasional given name, from a place-name or surname related to Kimborough/Kimber. As a first name it is often treated as surname-style.

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How popular is Kimber?

202490.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Kimber in 2024299

2024 rank#910 girls

Peak year2019

Total US babies since 188011,370

Kimber has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Kimber

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Oliviaolive tree · English
  • Evelyndesired; little bird · English
  • Harperharp player · English
  • Violetviolet flower · English
  • Hazelhazel tree · English
  • Ellieshort form of names ending in -el or -ella · English
  • Lilylily flower · English
  • Scarlettscarlet, bright red · English

Kimber questions

What does the name Kimber mean?

Kimber means "Cyneburh's meadow". It comes from English. Kimber is an English surname and occasional given name, from a place-name or surname related to Kimborough/Kimber. As a first name it is often treated as surname-style.

Is Kimber a boy or girl name?

Kimber is mainly a girl's name in US records (96% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Kimber?

299 US babies were named Kimber in 2024. Its peak year was 2019.

How do you pronounce Kimber?

Kimber is usually pronounced KIM-ber.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.