Kim

noun

a) a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.

The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonels family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.

b) used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .