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 Benton — keyboardist and songwriter of the Holograms in the 1980s animated series Jem and the Holograms (1985-1988); Jerrica/Jem's younger sister; the show was a defining piece of 1980s girl-targeted animation and toy marketing by Hasbro, and was revived as a 2015 live-action film and an IDW comic series (2015-2019). Kimber Sissons — character in Nip/Tuck. Kimber James — American media personality. *The name surged in the 2010s through the popularity of the Jem revival and as a fresh alternative to the dated-feeling Kimberly; it also benefited from the rise of -er ending names for girls (Harper, Piper, Sawyer, Ember). Kimber Manufacturing — American firearms company (a male-coded brand association). Kimber appears as a character name across multiple 21st-century YA novels and the Sons of Anarchy* extended universe.
Featured throughout 1980s animation and modern naming trends.
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.
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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.