kimber
/kˈɪmbɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname originating as a matronymic.
name
A female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.
Example Sentences
- "When Brin Ohmsford had come into Darklin Reach three hundred years earlier, Hearthstone had been the home of Cogline and the child he claimed as his granddaughter, Kimber Boh."
Etymology
* From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburg, from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”). * English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa (“warrior”) (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn (“grove/wood”). It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: cyne-