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Kimber

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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  • 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.[1]

Proper noun

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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.
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References

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  1. ^ Kimber Family HistoryAncestry.com and Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press