Kimberly is from an Old English place-name — Cyneburg's lēah ("royal one's wood/meadow"). *The name surged into American popularity after the 1959 film Kimberly Jim; ranked in the US top 10 from 1964 to 1975, peaking at #4 in 1966 and 1967. Kimberly Bryant (born 1967) — American electrical engineer; founder of Black Girls Code (2011), the nonprofit that has taught coding to over 30,000 Black girls. Kim Ng (born 1968)* — first woman and first East Asian to be hired as general manager of a Major League Baseball team (Miami Marlins, 2020).
Featured throughout late-20th-century American media.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kimberly reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.