Kimberlin as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kimberlin

What is the meaning of the name Kimberlin ?

The baby name Kimberlin is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced KIM-ber-lin.

Kimberlin is English in Origin.

Kimberlin is best understood as a modern English elaboration of Kimberly, with the spelling shaped by the productive feminine ending -lin/-lyn. Kimberly began as an English surname and place name. The Nottinghamshire place Kimberley is recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as Chineburlai, from Old English Cyneburh, a woman’s name built from cyne, royal, and burh, fortress, plus leah, woodland clearing or meadow. The literal sense is therefore Cyneburh’s clearing, not a tribal or warrior term.

As a forename, Kimberly rose sharply in the United States after the mid twentieth century, helped by the wider fashion for surnames and place names for girls. Kimberlin appears later as a rarer variant, recorded mostly from the late twentieth century and especially around the 1980s and 1990s. Related spellings include Kimberley, Kimberly, Kimberlee, Kymberly, and Kimberlyn; actress Kimberlin Brown is a visible bearer.