Khym as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Khym

What is the meaning of the name Khym ?

The baby name Khym is a Unisex name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /kaɪm/ (kime),/kɪm/ (kim).

Khym is English in Origin.

Khym is a modern, stylized variant of Kim/Kym, used as a unisex given name. In English it most often serves as a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley, a place-name surname from Old English Cyneburh + leah, meaning “Cyneburh’s clearing/meadow.” In Scandinavia and parts of Europe, Kim is a familiar for Joakim/Joachim (Hebrew Yehoyaqim, “Yahweh raises”). The spelling also evokes the Korean name Kim (Gim), written with the hanja 金 “gold; metal.”

Use in the West grew through the 20th century - boosted for boys by Kipling’s novel Kim (1901) and for girls by the mid-century rise of Kimberly. Khym appears as a late-20th/early-21st-century creative update; the h is typically silent. Variants and related forms include Kim, Kym, Khim; and longer bases such as Kimberly/Kimberley, Kimber, Kimball, and Joakim/Joachim. Depending on derivation, the name can carry senses ranging from “Cyneburh’s meadow” to “Yahweh raises” to “gold.”

⚙ Khym is extremely rare. There are only 24 recorded uses on record, spread over 9 countries.