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The kimber Surname

kimber Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.

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Distribution of kimber Families in the US in 1920
Number of kimber families
 25-47
 9-24
 1-8
 0
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