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.
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