Kimberley - for a boy

[Lucie99]

Boy would be known as Kim. Opinions?

[EhricLovesTheBhrothers]

Are you crazy?

[RedToothBrush]

No. Just no.

[SevenEleven]

What are your reasonings for using Kimberley? It wouldn't be my first choice out of all the other lovely names out there.

[Zakken]

Sounds feminine to me. I have met a couple of male Kims, but as far as I know they were just Kim.

You can also get Kim from Joachim, which is definitely masculine.

[noblegiraffe]

Kimberly is a girl's name, or a North Korean dictator.

Neither is good for a baby boy.

[catlovingdoctor]

No. Just be conventional FFS. Do you want him to be bullied at school?

[Lucie99]

I really like it but anticipated that reaction. I knew a lovely man called Kim.

[nancy75]

I know a man called Tracey and another called kellie, the both had the piss taken out of them relentlessly as kids, I think Kim would fall in to the same category

[Eminado]

Please don't. He has to go to school. It might be a nice / sentimental idea in your mind but think of the practicalities of him actually going to school.

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

I've heard of Kim for a boy but not Kimberley

[Hairylegs007]

Prefer kit

[BestIsWest]

Kimberley was predominantly a boys name for years. I know one in his 50s. It didn't really become a girls name until the 1950s or 60s.

[Baguettes]

No.

[FirstOfficerDouglasRichardson]

I knew a man called Kim short for Kimberly, he wasn't especially keen on it. He's about 60 now. I do think it's quite feminine. What about Kit?

[Lucie99]

Thanks BestisWest. I knew it had male origins but perhaps these days solely associated with girls.

[FirstOfficerDouglasRichardson]

It's definitely a unisex name, but the female name has for the most part continued to be popular the male name hasn't.

[JoanOfRickets]

No. Just no.

[lljkk]

NO. great name for a girl. Kyle? Keith?

[DoloresLandingham]

No no no. Kimberley is female.

Kim can be male. The protagonist in Kipling's novel Kim is short for Kimball. It's also a fairly common nn for Joachim.

[TheHappinessTrap]

Listen to Johnny Cash's Boy Named Sue before you decide!

[MrsHenryCrawford]

I like Kim for a boy, makes me think of kipling.

[badg3r]

NO! why do you want to give your beautiful little baby boy a horrible girl's name?!

[WellErrr]

'So I gave you that name and I said goodbye,
I knew you'd have to get tough or die,
and it's that name that helped to make you strong!
........and if I ever have a son, I think I'll name him...Bill, George; any damn thang but Sue! I still hate that name!'

[VixxFace]

Bad

[SisterMoonshine]

I love it. And if DD had been a boy I was wanting Kim. I wouldn't have gone for the whole Kimberley though.
But then I do like, what DH calls, girly boys names: Kim, Rowan, Julian etc

I know a Kim too, and he's cool.