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kimball Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Middle English personal name Kimbel, Old English Cynebeal(d), composed of the elements cyne- ‘royal’ + beald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.
  2. English: variant spelling of Kimble.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kimball Families in the US in 1920
Number of kimball families
 414-826
 139-413		 1-138
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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