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Here in South Africa we're in the same kind of situation ... though I think that Tracy is ahead of Tracey. We've got a town named Kimberley, so most of our Kims are just Kim; and Beverly was unknown here until we got TV (in the 70s) and with it a whole new bunch of American inputs. There aren't any stats available locally, to my deep regret, but I haven't met a Beverley under 50.

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Actually, there's a male Kim in the entertainment industry who's Kimbrian - one word - and a friend of mine named her (by now adult) daughter Kimron after a character in a book her husband had read; book now unknown. Daughter rejected this, very properly, and uses Kim all the time.