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Stephanie is quite nice. Not a favourite, but certainly OK; I also like Stephen for a boy and would be more likely to consider using it IRL.
Kimberly looks like a spelling error. In South Africa, diamonds were discovered and mined in the mid-19th century and the town that grew up around the diggings was named Kimberley after a British Cabinet minister who took his title from a town in the UK which also has the -ey spelling. Diamonds sound quite all right, but present-day Kimberley has run out of them and although it is still the provincial Capital, it is a run-down, dusty, hot little town with minimal job opportunities and an incompetent government. There are plenty of South Africans named Kim, but I've never met a local Kimberley or Kimberly, and I hope my luck holds.
Kimberly looks like a spelling error. In South Africa, diamonds were discovered and mined in the mid-19th century and the town that grew up around the diggings was named Kimberley after a British Cabinet minister who took his title from a town in the UK which also has the -ey spelling. Diamonds sound quite all right, but present-day Kimberley has run out of them and although it is still the provincial Capital, it is a run-down, dusty, hot little town with minimal job opportunities and an incompetent government. There are plenty of South Africans named Kim, but I've never met a local Kimberley or Kimberly, and I hope my luck holds.
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