Kember
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Kember by the numbers
Kember was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 15 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Kember
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kember. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kimbervariant of Kimberley, from a place name meaning royal forest508 in the US (2017)
- Kymberroyal forest; a modern respelling of Kimber or Kimberly54 in the US (2017)
- Kemper60 in the US (2017)
- Kamber15 in the US (2017)
- Kemetblack land; ancient name for Egypt14 in the US (2017)
- Kemberlyfrom the royal forest; a form of Kimberly7 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kember
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