Kim m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Kim f for the female version.

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Nordic short form of Joakim (see Joachim) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) English short form of Kimball (see Cynebeald) [1] [6] [7] [3] [4] [8] [5]

3) English short form of Kimberley [7] [5]

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Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Kimsson Iceland

Female

Kimsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kim
Genitive: Kims
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kim
Genitive: Kimin
Partitive: Kimiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Kim
Accusative: Kim
Dative: Kim
Genitive: Kims
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kim
Genitive: Kims
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kim
Genitive: Kims

Name Days

Finland Finland

20 March

Norway Norway

20 March

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 March

Sweden Sweden

20 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Kim Malthe-Bruun (8 July 1923 – 6 April 1945), Canadian-born seaman and a member of the Danish resistance
  • Kim Melius Flyvholm Larsen (23 October 1945 - 30 September 2018), Danish singer, songwriter and musician
  • Kim Kielsen (born 30 November 1966), Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister of Greenland (2014- )

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[11]
29154
n.a.
392
n.a.
28762
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[12]
10916 17017 2560 4805 8356 12212
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
7012
n.a.
601
n.a.
6411
Greenland Greenland[14]
119 169
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
29 53
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
8663
n.a.
619
n.a.
8044
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[12][11][16][13]:Name statistics for Kim (f)

Sources: [12] [11] [16] [13]

Statistics as male name

Recent statistics trend[12][11][16][13]:Name statistics for Kim (m)

Sources: [12] [11] [16] [13]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[16]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Kim (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no