Talk:Kimberly (given name)

Etymology
"the Modern English meaning is 'diamond'" - How could there be a "modern English meaning" different from the ancient one? --Sasper (talk) 22:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Easy, diamond isn't the "meaning" of the name. Actually you can kinda see how diamond fits into the picture though, and why someone added that. Kimberley, Northern Cape is known for its diamonds.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 05:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Copied from User talk:Soundofmusicals
--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 10:13, 8 December 2010 (UTC)


 * --Soundofmusicals (talk) 14:16, 8 December 2010 (UTC)


 * --Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 05:53, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Note the above purple stuff was copied and pasted from User talk:Soundofmusicals.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 06:35, 9 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Can't really be bothered with this - but the personal name "Kimberley" (or a very close cognate of it) was around a loooooong time before the Boer War (like best part of a thousand years). The name may or may not have become popular about that time (??) very much doubt it, what ever your source says, some "sources" are profoundly ignorant and can and should be rejected. In any case, this would be a case of a very old name being revived rather than a new one being coined! It is after all principally an American name (so far as modern usage is concerned) - and the Americans, if they cared about the Boer War at all, were on the Boer's side!! When a source is plainly ignorant fantasy... still you can have your little wank if you must - just that this kind of thing gives Wikipedia a bad name. I'll leave this for someone with a better dictionary of names to argue. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 08:52, 9 December 2010 (UTC)


 * What gives Wikipedia a bad name is people inserting unreferenced misinformation into articles and presenting it as fact.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 06:56, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Unisex
The article lead says Kimberly is unisex, but the infobox says "feminine". So which is it? Thinkbabynames.com says it can be either, though it is #24 for females and not in the top 1000 for males. Knight of Truth (talk) 18:59, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Kimberlé & demographics
What is the origin of the variant Kimberlé, and is it common, and among which population. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 18:23, 31 May 2019 (UTC)