Kimberley

Meanings

1. Any of several places:
2. The capital city of the Northern Cape, South Africa, noted for diamond mining.
3. The northernmost region in Western Australia.
4. A locality in Meander Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
5. A city in southeast British Columbia, Canada.
6. A small village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0704).
7. A town and civil parish with a town council in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4944).
8. A rural area of Selwyn district, in central Canterbury, New Zealand.
9. A habitational surname from Old English.
10. A male given name transferred from the surname or place name (site of a battle in the Boer Wars).
11. A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kimberly, popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Etymology

English place name "wood or clearing of Kyneburga (a seventh century female saint)", from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”) + lēah (“leigh, clearing”).