# Kimber (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kimber/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “royal”, “fortress”, “warrior”, “grove/wood” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Kymber |
| US babies named this | 11,666 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 451 / 11,215 (96% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

* 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.

## What it means

Kimber is grouped under king and warrior.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 261 | 982 |
| 2012 | 344 | 791 |
| 2013 | 430 | 665 |
| 2014 | 456 | 627 |
| 2015 | 453 | 631 |
| 2016 | 516 | 593 |
| 2017 | 501 | 603 |
| 2018 | 509 | 599 |
| 2019 | 508 | 599 |
| 2020 | 415 | 685 |
| 2021 | 426 | 682 |
| 2022 | 367 | 777 |
| 2023 | 304 | 884 |
| 2024 | 292 | 910 |
| 2025 | 278 | 936 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | 4,572 |
| 1976 | 5 | 6,065 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,253 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,325 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,332 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,324 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,926 |
| 2018 | 14 | 6,188 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,575 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,157 |
| 2021 | 13 | 6,527 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,070 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,616 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,689 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6,014 |

## People named Kimber

- Kimber James, American transsexual pornographic actress
- Frederic Kimber Seward, American lawyer (1878–1943)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.