as a First Name
The immediate source of the given name is the town in South Africa, the scene of fighting during the Boer War, which brought it to public notice at the end of the 19th century. The town was named after a certain Lord Kimberley, whose ancestors derived their surname from one of the places in England called Kimberley. The first part of the place name derives from various Old English personal names; the second (from Old English lēah) means ‘wood’ or ‘clearing’.
| 1,091st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,494
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 34,955
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Kimberley per capita
- 1967
- marked the height of its popularity
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