Entry № 5480 · English origin

Kimber Kimber — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIM-ber /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Royal fortress meadow (Kimber from Jem and the Holograms)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "royal fortress meadow (kimber from jem and the holograms)".

Kimber is a modern English short form of Kimberly — from the South African town Kimberley (named after the 1st Earl of Kimberley), itself from the Old English Cyneburg's lēah ("Cyneburg's meadow" — cyne meaning "royal"). A top-1000 US baby name in the 2010s-2020s. Kimber Sissons — character in Nip/Tuck. Kimber James — American media personality. Kimber appears as a character name across multiple 21st-century YA novels and the Sons of Anarchy extended universe.

Royal fortress meadow.

The name in its native script.

Kimber
Transliteration
Kimber
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪm.bər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kimber stands.

Kimber 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.

Kimbers before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kimber Benton
Jem and the Holograms.
1985

Names connected to Kimber.

The number behind Kimber.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kimber reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.