| Pronunciation | English: /kɪm/ Russian: [kʲim] |
|---|---|
| Gender | Unisex |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | multiple |
Kim is a male and female 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 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
Movies and TV
- Kim Atienza (born 1967), Filipino entertainer
- Kim Basinger (born 1953), American actress
- Kim Bodnia (born 1965), Danish actor and director
- Kim Cattrall (born 1956), Canadian actress
- Kim Chiu (born 1990), Filipino actress and singer
- Kim Coates (born 1958), Canadian actor
- Kim Domingo (born 1995), Filipino entertainer
- Kim Fields (born 1969), American actress
- Kim Henkel (born 1946), American screenwriter and director
- Kim Manners (1951–2009), American television director and producer
- Kim Novak (born 1933), American actress
- Kim O'Brien, American actress
- Kim Richards (born 1964), American reality television personality, actress and socialite
- Kim Rossi Stuart (born 1969), Italian actor and director
- Kim Spradlin (born 1983), American interior designer
- Kim Woodburn (born 1942), English television personality
- Kim Yashpal, Indian actress and model
- Kim Zolciak-Biermann (born 1978), American television personality
Musicians
- Kim Appleby (born 1961), English singer
- Kim Boekbinder, Canadian musician
- Kim Carnes (born 1945), American singer
- Kim Cascone (born 1955), Italian American electronic music composer
- Kim Deal (born 1961), American musician
- Kim Gannon (1900-1974), American songwriter
- Kim Gordon (born 1953), American musician
- Lil' Kim (born Kimberly Denise Jones, 1974), American rapper
- Kim Ljung (born 1971), Norwegian musician
- Kim Mitchell (born 1952), Canadian musician
- Kim Molina (born 1991), Filipino singer
- Kim Moyes (born 1976), Australian musician
- Kim Petersen (born 1956), Danish singer
- Kim Petras (born 1992), German singer
- Kimberley Rew (born 1951), English singer-songwriter
- Kim Thayil (born 1960), American musician
- Kim Walker-Smith (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
- Kim Wilde (born 1960), English singer
- Kim Wyatt (born 1982), American singer and dancer
Politics
- Kim Aas (born 1970), Danish politician
- Kim Beazley (born 1948), Australian politician
- Kim Beazley Sr. (1917–2007), Australian politician
- Kim Campbell (born 1947), Canadian politician
- Kim Carr (born 1955), Australian former politician
- Kim Guadagno (born 1959), American politician and lawyer
- Kim Kataguiri (born 1996), Brazilian politician and activist
- Kim Richards (born 1971), Australian politician
- Trần Trọng Kim (1883–1953), Vietnamese scholar and politician
Sports
- Kim Amb (born 1990), Swedish track and field athlete
- Kim Barnett (born 1960), former English cricketer
- Kim Batiste (1968–2020), American baseball player
- Kim Bokamper (born 1954), American former professional football player
- Kim Boutin (born 1994), Canadian short track speed skater
- Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls (born 1968), American professional bodybuilder
- Kim Clijsters (born 1983), Belgian former professional tennis player
- Kim Eagles (born 1976), Canadian sport shooter
- Kim English (born 1988), American former professional basketball player
- Kim Gevaert (born 1978), Belgian former sprint athlete
- Kim Grant (footballer) (born 1972), Ghanaian former footballer
- Kim Grant (tennis) (born 1971), South African former professional tennis player
- Kim Green, British-Australian former racing driver
- Kim Hagger (born 1961), English retired track and field athlete
- Kim Hirschovits (born 1982), Finnish former professional ice hockey player
- Kim Hughes (born 1954), Australian former cricketer
- Kim Huybrechts (born 1985), Belgian professional darts player
- Kim Johnsson (born 1976), Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman
- Kim Källström (born 1982), Swedish former professional footballer
- Kim Kilpatrick (born c. 1966), Canadian Paralympic swimmer
- Kim Ng (born 1968), Chinese-American professional baseball executive
- Kim Rhode (born 1979), American double trap and skeet shooter
- Kim Staal (born 1978), Danish former professional ice hockey player
- Kim Sunna (born 1987), Swedish professional ice hockey player
- Kim Warwick (born 1952), Australian former tennis player
Other people
- Kim Cloutier (born 1987), Canadian-American model
- Kim Deitch (born 1944), American cartoonist
- Kim Yi Dionne (born 1977), American political scientist
- Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz, 1974), German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist
- Kim Jones (disambiguation), several people
- Kim Kardashian (born 1980), American personality and businesswoman
- Kim Komando (born 1967), American talk-radio program host
- Kim Newman (born 1959), English author
- Kim Peek (1951–2009), American savant
- Kim Philby (born Harold Philby, 1912–1988), British spy and defector to the Soviet Union
- Kim Smith, several people
- Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952), American science fiction writer
- Kim Stolz (born 1983), American fashion model and television personality
- Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020), Dutch Canadian historian of science and art
- Kim Wall (died 2017), female murder victim
Fictional characters
- Kim, the main protagonist in Seedfolks
- Kim Bauer in the TV series 24
- Kim Butterfield in the soap opera Hollyoaks
- Kim Chan in Have Gun Will Travel, usually called Hey Boy
- 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
- Kimberly Hart in the Power Rangers franchise, portrayed by Amy Jo Johnson
- 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, animated teenage crime fighter heroine
- Kimiko Ross in webcomic Dresden Codak
- Kim Tate in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Kimberly Wexler in the AMC television series Better Call Saul, portrayed by Rhea Seehorn
See also
- Kim (surname)
- Kim (Korean surname)
- Kim (disambiguation) (other meanings)
- Tropical Storm Kim, tropical cyclones named Kim
References
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.