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Kim
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Appendix:Variations of "kim"
English
Pronunciation
en /kɪm/ [kʰɪm]
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kim.wav Southern England
en ɪm 1
Etymology 1
en Kimball and en Kimberley as a male name, and of en Kimberley and en Kimberly as a female name.
Proper noun
s
en unisex.
en male surnames.
I 1 The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
en female surnames 1940s and later.
en 1926 w:Edna Ferber Show Boat Doubleday, Page & Co 1 Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.
en 1991 w:Don DeLillo Mao II Viking 0670839043 16 It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.
en Todd Leopold Band unhappy with use of ‘Eye of the Tiger’ for Kim Davis w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/entertainment/eye-of-the-tiger-kim-davis-survivor-feat/index.html 2015-09-09 The use of “Eye of the Tiger” at a rally for Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has Survivor’s Jim Peterik “risin’ up to the challenge” – and threatening action. https://web.archive.org/web/20230527202830/https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/entertainment/eye-of-the-tiger-kim-davis-survivor-feat/index.html
Derived terms
en Kimbit Kimism Kimist Kimmi Kimmie Kimmy Kimothy Kimye
Translations
male given name
Arabic: ar كِيم m
Belarusian: be Кім m
Bulgarian: bg Ким m
Catalan: ca Quim m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn ^金
Danish: da Kim
Japanese: ja キム Kimu
Macedonian: mk Ким m
Norwegian: no Kim
Portuguese: pt Kim m
Russian: ru Ким m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ким m
Latin: sh Kim m
Slovak: sk Kim m
Swedish: sv Kim
Ukrainian: uk Кім m
female given name
Dutch: nl Kim
Russian: ru Ким f
Slovak: sk Kim f
Swedish: sv Kim
Etymology 2
From en ko ^김(金).
Proper noun
s
en Korean.
en Gim
en 2020-02-16 Justin McCurry; Nemo Kim Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide w:The Observer https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/16/parasite-film-oscars-bong-joon-ho-seoul-rich-poor-south-korea Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. “My husband and I thought it was such an honour for our shop to appear in Parasite,” its 72-year-old owner, Kim Kyung-soon, says. https://web.archive.org/web/20220410011501/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/16/parasite-film-oscars-bong-joon-ho-seoul-rich-poor-south-korea
Translations
Korean surname
Arabic: ar كِيم
Belarusian: be Кім
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn ^金
Dutch: nl Kim
French: fr Kim
German: de Kim
Hebrew: he קים kim
Hindi: hi किम
Japanese: ja キム Kimu, ja 金 Kin
Korean: ko ^김(金)
Macedonian: mk Ким
Persian: fa کیم kim
Portuguese: pt Kim m f
Russian: ru Ким
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ким
Latin: sh Kim
Spanish: es Kim
Swedish: sv Kim
Ukrainian: uk Кім
Urdu: ur کیم kim
Vietnamese: vi Kim (vi 金)
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Kim is the 77th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 262,352 individuals. Kim is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.47%) individuals.
Etymology 3
+ language
Proper noun
An Mbum language of southern Chad.
en Rudyard Kipling
Danish
Etymology
Short form of da Joakim.
Proper noun
da proper noun
da male Hebrew
References
Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 34 878 males with the given name Kim have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from nl en Kim.
Pronunciation
nl /kɪm/
nl Nl-Kim.ogg
nl ɪm 1
nl Kim
nl kim
Proper noun
m,f
nl unisex English
Anagrams
nl mik
Finnish
Etymology
From fi da Kim, fi sv Kim, short for sv Joakim.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi male
Declension
0 Kim ä
Statistics
dvv_20250813 4884 655 130 144 183 1074 7
References
German
Pronunciation
de /kɪm/
de de-Kim.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de male Hebrew Joachim
de female English recent
Norwegian Bokmål
Kim (given name),no:Kim (navn)
Pronunciation
nb /kɪm/
nb ɪm 1
nb kim
nb Kim
Etymology 1
A Nordic short form of nb Joakim and nb Joachim.
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb male Latin < Ancient Greek < Biblical Hebrew Joakim,Joachim
Etymology 2
nb en Kim, a short form of en Kimberley or en Kimberly as a female name, and of en Kimberley or en Kimball as a male name.
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb female English Kimberley,Kimberly
nb male English Kimberley,Kimball
References
“Kim” in Store norske leksikon male given name
“Kim” in Store norske leksikon female given name
“Kim” at Nordic Names male given name
“Kim” at Nordic Names female given name
Portuguese
pt:
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Proper noun
m
pt male
Etymology 2
Proper noun
mfbysense
pt Korean
pt Gim
Swedish
Proper noun
c
sv male Hebrew, shortened from sv Joakim
sv female English recent
Vietnamese
Etymology
金 gold.
Pronunciation
vi kim
Proper noun
vi historical the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) Jin dynasty 1115–1234
vi Chinese
vi female Chinese
Derived terms
vi nhà Kim
See also
vi kim