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First name origins & meanings:

  1. American: Zany
  2. English: Leader

First name variations: Kem, Kemmie, Kember, Kim, Kimball, Kimberly, Kimberley

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. 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.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.

Famous people who gave their babies this name: Clint Eastwood