Kim
[kɪm]Meaning
an English short form of Kimball or Kimberley, a Scandinavian short form of Joachim, and a Korean surname
Background Story
In English, Kim is a short form of Kimball and Kimberley for men and of Kimberley and Kimberly for women, and it predates Kimberly as a given name. Behind the Name also records it as a Scandinavian short form of Joachim, and Wiktionary gives it as an English form of the Korean surname Gim. Rudyard Kipling used it for the hero of his novel Kim in 1901, where it stood for Kimball, and Edna Ferber used it in Show Boat in 1926 for a character named from the initials of Kentucky, Illinois and Mississippi.
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