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.
Kimberly reduces to one — the number of royal meadow.