Kimball

K5I1M3B3A1L1L1

proper noun

A surname from Welsh.

Less commonScrabble 15

Meanings

proper nounKimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)

plural Kimballs

  1. countableA surname from Welsh.
  2. countableA male given name transferred from the surname.
    1 more example

    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 colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.

    1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC
  3. A placename
    1. countableuncountableA hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
    2. countableuncountableA city in Minnesota.
    3. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
    4. countableuncountableA town in South Dakota.
    5. countableuncountableA town in Tennessee.
    6. countableuncountableA town in West Virginia.
    7. countableuncountableA town in Wisconsin.
    8. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Kimball County.

Origin

  1. Old EnglishCynebeald
  2. Old WelshCynbel
  3. EnglishKimball

From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.

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Cite this entry
APA

Kimball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kimball

MLA

“Kimball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kimball. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kimball,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kimball.

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