Kimber

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.

Origin

• • From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburh, from Old English cyne ("royal") + burh.
  • English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn. It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.