Kim (given name)
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Kim is a male or female given name. It is also used as a diminutive or nickname for Kimberly, Kimberley, Kimball, Kimiko and Joakim.
A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim. From the early 1900s till the 1960s the name Kim was used in English-speaking countries mostly for boys because of the popularity of this book. Girls were seldom given the name until the 1960s, but it has since become more common for them than for males.
In the early Soviet coinage of given names, the acronym КИМ for the Young Communist International led to Ким (transliterated as Kim) as a given name.
People with this name
Sports
- Kim Batiste, American baseball player
- Kim Bokamper, American football player
- Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
- Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprint 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 defenceman
- 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"
Politics
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 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 people
- Kim Jones (disambiguation), any of several people
- Kim Kardashian, American personality
- Kim Komando, American talk-radio program host
- 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, a Jaredite king in the Book of Mormon
- 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
Fictional characters
See also