Kim

• IPA^(key): /kɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

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• Kimball
• Kimberley / Kimberly

Kim

1. A male given name, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
   • 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1

     The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.

2. A female given name used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
   • 1926 Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:

     Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.

   • 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, →ISBN, page 16

     It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.

Korean 김 or 金 (gim or 金)

• Gim

Kim

1. A Korean surname​, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김 (Gim), hanja: 金), the most common Korean surname.

Kim

1. A male given name, short form of Joakim.

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 34 878 males with the given name Kim have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

Kim ?

1. A female given name borrowed from English.

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Kim

1. A male given name derived from Joachim.
2. A female given name recently borrowed from English.

Kim

1. A male given name shortened from Joakim.

Kim c (genitive Kims)

1. A male given name shortened from Joakim.
2. A female given name recently borrowed from English.

Sino-Vietnamese word from 金 (“gold”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kim˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kim˧˧]
• Homophone: kim

Kim

1. A surname​.
2. A female given name