Kimber Family History
Kimber Name Meaning
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.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of
Kinberg.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kimber Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kimber families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kimber families
|
309 - 615 104 - 308 |
1 - 103 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kimber families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kimber census records
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Kimber Family Origin
Kimber Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Kimber
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Kimber Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kimber census records
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