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Kimber

Kimber proper noun: a surname originating as a matronymic.

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.
    • 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.1990, Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara, Ballantine Books, page 14

Forms of Kimber

alternative formKymber

Origin of Kimber

* 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.

Questions about Kimber

What does Kimber mean?
Kimber means a surname originating as a matronymic.
What part of speech is Kimber?
Kimber is a proper noun.

Words near Kimber in the dictionary

  1. kimbaps
  2. Kimbel
  3. Kimbell
  4. Kimbells
  5. Kimbels
  6. Kimber
  7. kimberellomorph
  8. kimberellomorphs
  9. Kimberlee
  10. Kimberleigh
  11. Kimberley

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