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kimbrough Name Meaning and History

English: from the female personal name Kynborough, recorded in Suffolk, England, as late as the 16th and 17th centuries. Although there is no Middle English evidence for it, this probably represents a survival of Old English female personal name Cyneburh, composed of the elements cyne- ‘royal’ + burh ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’. This was the name of a daughter of the 7th-century King Penda of Mercia, who, in spite of her father’s staunch opposition to Christianity, was converted and founded an abbey, serving as its head. She was venerated as a saint, and gave her name to the village of Kimberley in Norfolk. The surname is now almost extinct in England, but continues to flourish in the U.S.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kimbrough Families in the US in 1920
Number of kimbrough families
 95-187
 32-94		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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