Entry № 5480 · English origin

Kimber Kimber — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIM-ber /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Royal fortress meadow (Kimber from Jem and the Holograms)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "royal fortress meadow (kimber from jem and the holograms)".

Kimber is a modern English short form of Kimberly — from the South African town Kimberley (named after the 1st Earl of Kimberley), itself from the Old English Cyneburg's lēah ("Cyneburg's meadow" — cyne meaning "royal"). A top-1000 US baby name in the 2010s-2020s. Kimber Sissons — character in Nip/Tuck. Kimber James — American media personality. Kimber appears as a character name across multiple 21st-century YA novels and the Sons of Anarchy extended universe.

Royal fortress meadow.

The name in its native script.

Kimber
Transliteration
Kimber
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪm.bər /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Kimber stands.

Kimber does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kimbers before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Kimber Benton
Jem and the Holograms.
1985

Names connected to Kimber.

The number behind Kimber.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kimber reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.