Kim (given name)

Kim is a male or female given name. The pronunciation of the name is [ kim ]. It can also be used as a shorter way of saying "Kimberly", "Kimberley", "Kimball", "Kimiko" and "Joakim". It can also be used as a nickname. The name Kim is of English origin and is derived from the Old English word "cyne" which means "royal" or "noble"  This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).

Girls were hardly ever given the name "Kim" until the 1960s. Since then, it has become more common for females to be named Kim.

People with this name include:

Sports
 Kim Batiste, American baseball player
 Kim Bokamper, American football player
 Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
 Kim Gevaert, Belgian athlete
 Kim Grant (footballer), Ghanaian former footballer
 Kim Grant (tennis), South African tennis player
 Kim Hagger, English track and field athlete
 Kim Hirschovits, Finnish ice hockey player
 Kim Johnsson, Swedish professional ice hockey player
 Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
 Kim Rhode, skeet shooter
 Kim Sunna, Swedish professional ice hockey player
 Kim Warwick, Australian former tennis player
 Carlos Henrique Dias, Brazilian footballer nicknamed "Kim"
 Kim Yong-sik, Japanese and South Korean association football player

Politics
 Kim Beazley, Australian politician, son of Kim Edward Beazley
 Kim Campbell, first and only (to date) female Canadian Prime Minister
 Kim Carr, Australian politician
 Kim Edward Beazley, Australian politician
 Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 3rd Supreme leader of North Korea

Artists
 Lil' Kim, singer
 Kim Appleby, British singer
 Kim Basinger, actress
 Kim Carnes, singer 
 Kim Cascone, electronic music composer 
 Kim Cattrall, actress 
 Kim Chiu, teen actress in the Philippines
 Kim Coates, actor
 Kim Deal, musician
 Kim Deitch, comic book artist
 Kim Fields, actress
 Kim Gordon, musician
 Kim Ljung, musician
 Kim Mitchell, musician and radio personality
 Kim Moyes, Australian musician
 Kim Novak, actress
 Kim Petersen, also known as King Diamond, singer
 Kim Petras, German singer
 Kim Thayil, lead guitarist for Soundgarden
 Kim Wilde, singer
 Kim Wyatt, singer and dancer
 Kim Zolciak, American singer and reality star from The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Other 
 Kim Kardashian, American personality
 Kim Komando, American talk-radio program host
 Kim Peek (1951-2009), American savant
 Kim Mathers, wife of Eminem, subject of song "Kim" from The Marshall Mathers LP
 Kim Stanley Robinson, American science fiction writer
 Kim Stolz, American fashion model, television personality

 Related pages 
 Kim (surname)

References

Category:Given names