Kim
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- Gim (Korean surname)
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Proper noun [edit]
Kim
- A male given name, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
- 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1
- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1
- A female given name used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
- 1926 Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
- 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.
- 1926 Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
- A surname, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김 (Gim), 金), the most common Korean surname.
Translations [edit]
male given name
surname
Danish [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Kim
- A male given name, short form of Joakim.
References [edit]
- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 34 878 males with the given name Kim have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪm
See also [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Kim ?
- A female given name borrowed from English.
Anagrams [edit]
German [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Kim
- A male given name derived from Joachim.
- A female given name recently borrowed from English.
Norwegian [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Kim
- A male given name shortened from Joakim.
Swedish [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Kim
- A male given name shortened from Joakim.
- A female given name recently borrowed from English.
Vietnamese [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: kīm
Etymology [edit]
Sino-Vietnamese, from 金 ("gold")
Proper noun [edit]
Kim
- A female given name, translates into English as "gold" or "golden" often in conjunction with the secondary given name Thi, which simply means female.
See also [edit]
Categories:
- English proper nouns
- English male given names from surnames
- English female given names from surnames
- English surnames
- English surnames from Korean
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish male given names
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch female given names
- German proper nouns
- German male given names
- German female given names
- German terms derived from English
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian male given names
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish male given names
- Swedish female given names
- Vietnamese terms derived from Sinitic languages
- Vietnamese female given names
- Vietnamese proper nouns