# Kimber

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #44,887

## Definitions
1. A surname originating as a matronymic.
2. A female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **kinder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kimber-vs-kinder)
- **Kimmel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kimber-vs-kimmel)
- **kisser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kimber-vs-kisser)
- **Kimberly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kimber-vs-kimberly)
- **Khmer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/khmer-vs-kimber)
- **killer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/killer-vs-kimber)
- **kicker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kicker-vs-kimber)
- **khyber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/khyber-vs-kimber)
- **Kiefer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiefer-vs-kimber)
- **kemper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kemper-vs-kimber)
- **kidder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kidder-vs-kimber)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ikmber`, `kibmer`, `kimbber`, `kimberr`, `kimbre`, `kimebr`, `kimmber`, `kkimber`, `kmiber`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kimber