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In the case of a friend's by now 40-year-old daughter, her father insisted on naming her Kimron "after a character in a book he was reading". At her wise insistence, she has always and only been known as Kim:and if anyone every knew what book it was, they forgot many years ago.
Has anyone here encountered Kimron, in or out of a book?
Has anyone here encountered Kimron, in or out of a book?
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Yes as a male name
http://www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/~kimron_shapiro
http://www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/~kimron_shapiro
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Kim (m)!
Well done! Looks like a Hebrew origin for it, then? So my Methodist friends must have been doubly confused. Or maybe it's just what it looks like: a merger between Kim (m) and Ron.
Thanks very much
Well done! Looks like a Hebrew origin for it, then? So my Methodist friends must have been doubly confused. Or maybe it's just what it looks like: a merger between Kim (m) and Ron.
Thanks very much
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The modern Hebrew word KIMRON (m.) means "vault, dome, arch." This does not really match traditional name giving motives, as far as I can see.
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No, indeed; however it fits English naming habits (John Paul, Sally-Ann) rather well, or looks as if it does. (It's also close to Kimon.) And names like Skye and Nevaeh seem to suggest that the vault of the heavens is a source of names for some namers. I'm also glad to learn that Hebrew has grammatical gender: I didn't know that! Thank you.
All the best
All the best
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Yes, there are two genders, m. and f. There is even a different pronoun to address persons or groups of persons of different gender. The same applies to verbs, they have different form for the two genders.
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