Kimberley - for a boy

[Lucie99]

Boy would be known as Kim. Opinions?

Are you crazy?

No. Just no.

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

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

Neither is good for a baby boy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Prefer kit

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.

No.

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?

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

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

No. Just no.

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

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.

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

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

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

'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!'

Bad

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.