Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kimberly (also Kimberley [1] or Kimberlee) is a unisex given name of Old English origin. John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley , a place in Norfolk, England , popularised the name by giving it to a town in South Africa and a region in Australia .
A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim, published in 1901. The name is also found in the opening of Edna Ferber 's 1926 novel Show Boat , whose female protagonist, Magnolia names her baby daughter Kim; the name was inspired by the convergence of the three states Kentucky, Illinois ...
This page was last edited on 3 February 2025, at 22:02 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Sharing her story. Kimberly Van Der Beek opened up about her two most recent miscarriages — and revealed the names she and James Van Der Beek picked out for their unborn sons. See James Van Der ...
Likewise the Kimberly in Warwickshire is derived from the personal name Cynebold. [3] An early record of the surname is de Chineburlai, in 1161; and de Kynmerley, in 1300. [4] The Earls of Kimberley derived their title from the place name in Norfolk. Their name gave rise to the like-named place Kimberley, in Northern Cape, South Africa.
Tabloids have long given nicknames to celebrity power couples — Brangelina, Kimye, TomKat, and even Billary — but Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle have bestowed one upon themselves ...
This article is about the given name. The given name is derived from the South African place name. The other place names in varying countries have nothing to do with this article. Actually, there are at least three places in England named Kimberley, but they have different etymologies (from the personal names Cyneburg, Cynemær, Cynebold).
Baby makes three! Kimberly Perry is pregnant with her and her husband Johnny Costello’s first child. “The best news of all the good news lately,” the pregnant Band Perry singer, 39, gushed ...