Kim (given name) explained
| Kim |
| Pronunciation: |
pronounced as /ru/ |
| Gender: | Unisex |
| Origin: | multiple |
Kim is a unisex given name. It is also used as a diminutive or nickname for names such as Kimber, Kimberly, Kimberley, Kimball and Kimiko. In Kenya, it is short for various male names such as Kimutai and Kimani. In Vietnam, it is also a unisex name.
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 Russian: Ким (Kim) is a diminutive/nickname of Ioakim (ru|Иоаким|link=no), "Joachim".[2] Its popularity in the early Soviet era was due to being reinterpreted as the acronym for Russian: Коммунистический Интернационал Молодежи (Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi, Young Communist International).
People
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- Kim Cadzow (born 2001, New Zealand racing cyclist
- Kim Campbell (born 1947), Canadian politician
- Kim Carnes (born 1945), American singer
- Kim Carr (born 1955), Australian former politician
- Kim Cascone (born 1955), Italian American electronic music composer
- Kim Cattrall (born 1956), Canadian actress
- Kim Chiu (born 1990), Filipino actress and singer
- Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls (born 1968), American professional bodybuilder
- Kim Clijsters (born 1983), Belgian former professional tennis player
- Kim Cloutier (born 1987), Canadian-American model
- Kim Coates (born 1958), Canadian actor
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- Kim Newman (born 1959), English author
- Kim Ng (born 1968), Chinese-American professional baseball executive
- Kim Novak (born 1933), American actress
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- Kim Peek (1951–2009), American savant
- Kim Perell, American entrepreneur and author
- Kim Petersen (born 1956), Danish singer known as King Diamond
- Kim Petras (born 1992), German singer
- Kim Philby (born Harold Philby, 1912–1988), British spy and defector to the Soviet Union
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- Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020), Dutch Canadian historian of science and art
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- Kim Walker-Smith (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
- Kim Wall, several people
- Kim Wall (died 2017), female murder victim
- Kim Warwick (born 1952), Australian former tennis player
- Kim Wilde (born 1960), English singer
- Kim Williams (architect), American independent scholar of architecture and mathematics
- Kim Williams (basketball) (born 1974), American former professional basketball player
- Kim Williams (media executive) (born 1952), Australian media executive
- Kim Williams (songwriter) (1947–2016), American country music songwriter
- Kim A. Williams Sr. (born 1954), American cardiologist
- Kim Woodburn (born 1942), English television personality
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Fictional characters
- Kim, a character in the NBC sitcom Friends
- Kim, the main protagonist in Seedfolks
- Kim Baker, one of the twins in "The Bakers" family in the Cheaper by the Dozen film
- Kim Bauer in the TV series 24
- Kim Butterfield in the soap opera Hollyoaks
- Kim Chan in the American Western television series Have Gun Will Travel
- Kim Chin in Class of 3000
- Kimball Cho in the American TV series The Mentalist
- Kim Craig in the Australian sitcom Kath & Kim
- Kim Fox in the soap opera EastEnders
- Kim Kitsuragi in the role-playing video game Disco Elysium
- Kim Moon, a character in the American sitcom It's Garry Shandling's Show
- Kim Pine in the series of graphic novels Scott Pilgrim
- Kim Possible, character in the Disney series of the same name
- Kim Tate in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Kim Wexler in the AMC television series Better Call Saul
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Kim once popular for boys and girls. 1 March 2024. subscription. Cleveland Evans. 8 December 2015.
- Web site: Иоаким, Аким, Яким . 2012-12-12 . 2012-07-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120726215725/http://kurufin.narod.ru/html/Translate/ioakim.html . dead .
