Kimberley

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

Kimberley

1. Any of several places:
   1. A city in and the capital of Northern Cape, South Africa, noted for diamond mining.
   2. The northernmost region in Western Australia.
2. A habitational surname​.
3. A male given name derived from the surname or the place name (site of a battle in the Boer Wars).
4. A female given name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s, more often spelled Kimberly.
   • 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, →ISBN, page 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.

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