Kimber

English

Alternative forms

• Kymber

Etymology

• From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburh, 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.

Proper noun

Kimber

1. A surname originating as a matronymic.
2. A female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.
   • 1990, Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara, Ballantine Books, page 14:

     When Brin Ohmsford had come into Darklin Reach three hundred years earlier, Hearthstone had been the home of Cogline and the child he claimed as his granddaughter, Kimber Boh.

Related terms

• Kimberley