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 reduces to four — the number of the Holograms.