The first name Kimber
A girl’s name meaning “royal”, “fortress”, “warrior”.
2 syllables Female Also a surname
Meaning and origin
Kimber means “royal”, “fortress”, “warrior”.
* 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.
More names that mean king, warrior.
From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in the United States
Babies named Kimber at birth, 1880–2025
In 2025, 278 girls born in the United States were named Kimber, the 936th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 2016, when 516 were.
US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.
Nicknames and spellings
Other spellings and forms
- Kymber
Famous people named Kimber
2 on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Kimber JamesAmerican transsexual pornographic actress, born 1988
- Frederic Kimber SewardAmerican lawyer (1878–1943)
Questions
- What does the name Kimber mean?
- Kimber means “royal”, “fortress”, “warrior”.
- Is Kimber a boy's or a girl's name?
- Mostly a girl's name: 96% of the 11,666 US babies named Kimber since 1880 were girls.
- When was Kimber most popular?
- 2016 in the United States, when 516 babies were named Kimber, its highest rank at 593rd.
- What are other spellings of Kimber?
- Kymber.
- Is Kimber also a surname?
- Yes. Kimber is used as a surname as well as a first name; its surname page has the origin and how many people carry it.