Entry № 5483 · English origin

Kimberly Kimberly — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIM-ber-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Royal forest meadow (peaked #4 in 1966; Kimberly Bryant)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "royal forest meadow (peaked #4 in 1966; kimberly bryant)".

Kimberly is from an Old English place-name — Cyneburg's lēah ("royal one's wood/meadow"). Kimberly Bryant (born 1967) — American electrical engineer; founder of Black Girls Code (2011), the nonprofit that has taught coding to over 30,000 Black girls.

Royal forest meadow.

The name in its native script.

Kimberly
Transliteration
Kimberly
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪm.bər.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kimberly stands.

Kimberly 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.

Kimberlys before her.

Real people
Kimberly Bryant
Founder of Black Girls Code.
born 1967
Kim Ng
First female MLB general manager.
born 1968
In fiction
Kimberly
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
1993

Names connected to Kimberly.

The number behind Kimberly.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kimberly reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.