Kimberly
Meaning of Kimberly
Kimberly breezes into conversation the way a mariachi trumpet cuts through a sleepy afternoon—bright, confident, impossible to miss. Born from the Old English “Cyneburg’s leah,” meaning “royal meadow,” the name traveled across oceans, lent its crown to a South African diamond town, and then, quicker than a salsa beat, glittered onto American birth certificates. She rock-eted from a quiet rank in the 1950s to a Top-10 sensation by the late ’70s, scattering little Kims everywhere like confetti at a quinceañera, and while her popularity has mellowed since, she still holds court in the low 200s today. Think of Kimberly as a sun-lit field where royalty meets down-to-earth charm—part princess, part girl next door, forever framed by sparkling stones and ’90s sitcom smiles. Pronounced KIM-bur-lee, she carries versatile nicknames (Kim, Kimber, Kimi) and plenty of pop-culture street cred, from actresses to pop anthems. In short, Kimberly is a diamond with grass roots—una joya con raíces verdes—ready to shine in any family story.
Pronunciation
British English
- Pronunced as KIM-bur-lee (/ˈkɪmbəli/)
American English
- Pronunced as KIM-bur-lee (/ˈkɪmbərli/)
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Notable People Named Kimberly
| Kimberly Elise is an American actress who made her film debut in Set It Off and later earned critical acclaim for Beloved. |
| Kimberly Noble - American neuroscientist and pediatrician Kimberly G. Noble studies how socioeconomic factors shape children’s cognitive development and serves as a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, directing the Neurocognition, Early Experience and Development Lab. |
| Kimberly Bryant is an American electrical engineer who worked in biotech and in 2011 founded Black Girls Code to teach technology to African American girls, later earning a spot on the Business Insider list of 25 most influential African Americans in technology. |
| Kimberly Brandão - Kimberly Maria Brandao is an American-born Portuguese retired footballer and center back who captained the Portugal women's national team through 2012 and played for it from 2007. |
| At 15 in 2009, Kimberly Ndidi Anyadike of Compton became the youngest African American woman to complete a transcontinental US flight, flying a single-engine Cessna with a safety pilot and a retired Air Force pilot who had served with the WWII Tuskegee Airmen. |
| Kimberly Hill is an American former outside hitter who won 2014 World Championship gold, 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold, and 2016 Rio Olympic bronze with the United States national team. |
| Kimberly Nicole Hampton, a US Army captain, was the first female military pilot in US history killed by hostile fire and the first South Carolina woman to die in the Iraq War. |
| Kimberly Susan Budil is an American physicist and the first woman to direct Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, known for advances in high power ultrafast lasers and advocacy for women in science. |
| Kimberly Goss is an American former singer and keyboardist best known as the frontwoman and co-founder of the Finnish metal band Sinergy from 1997 to 2004. |
| Kimberly Pita Quinn is an American actress, writer, and producer who co-wrote and starred in Winding Roads, later produced and appeared in St. Vincent, Hidden Figures, and The Starling, and owns Goldenlight Films with her husband, director Theodore Melfi. |
| Kimberly Kimble is an American hair stylist from Chicago, best known for WE tv series LA Hair, now leading the hair department on the HBO series Euphoria and styling stars like Beyonce and Zendaya. |
| Kimberly Raye is a Texas-based American author of romance and paranormal fiction, best known for the Dead End Dating series and Harlequin titles, and she has also written as Kimberly Randell. |
| Kimberly Godwin is an American TV executive and journalist who worked at CBS News from 2007 to 2021, became ABC News president in 2021 as the first Black woman to lead a major US broadcast news network, and announced plans to resign in May 2024. |
| Kimberly Willis Holt is an American children’s author best known for When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, which won the 1999 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and was adapted into a 2003 film. |
