Kim (given name)

Kim is a male and female unisex given name. It is also used as a diminutive or nickname for names such as Kimberly, Kimberley, Kimball and Kimiko. In Kenya it is short for Kimani or Kimathi which are male names.

For use as a surname, see Kim (surname).
Kim
PronunciationEnglish: /kɪm/
Russian: [kʲim]
GenderUnisex
Origin
Word/namemultiple

A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim, published in 1901. The name is also found in the opening of Edna Ferber's 1926 novel Show Boat, whose female protagonist, Magnolia names her baby daughter Kim; the name was inspired by the convergence of the three states Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri – where the child was born.

From the 1900s to the 1960s, the name Kim was mainly given to boys, despite the use of this name for both male and female characters in popular literature and, later, movies of the time.[1] In Scandinavia Kim can more often be used as a male name in its own right, being a common short form of Joakim.

In Russia Ким (Kim) is a diminutive/nickname of Ioakim (Russian: Иоаким), "Joachim".[2] Its popularity in the early Soviet era was explained as it being also the acronym for Коммунистический Интернационал Молодежи (Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi, Young Communist International).

Notable people

Politics

Sports

Artists

Other people
  • Kim, a Jaredite king in the Book of Mormon
  • Kim Dotcom, Founder of MegaUpload, two-time Gumball 3000 winner and Internet entrepreneur
  • Kim Jones (disambiguation), any of several people
  • Kim Kardashian, American personality
  • Kim Komando, American talk-radio program host
  • Kim Mathers, wife of Eminem, subject of song "Kim" from The Marshall Mathers LP
  • Kim Newman, English author
  • Kim Peek (1951–2009), American savant
  • Kim Philby, British spy and defector to the Soviet Union. He was said to have derived his nickname from the book Kim
  • Kim Smith (disambiguation), British Royal Navy Officer and submariner
  • Kim Stanley Robinson, American science fiction writer
  • Kim Stolz, American fashion model, television personality
  • Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020), Dutch/Canadian historian of science and art
  • Kim Wall, Swedish freelance journalist, killed by Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen
  • Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish racing driver

Fictional characters
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See also

References
  1. http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-kim-once-popular-for-boys-and-girls/article_b3e461ec-f4ac-53de-8bcc-4c06b146ca54.html
  2. Иоаким, Аким, Яким
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