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Kim is a male or female given name. It is also used as a diminutive or nickname for names such as Kimberly Kimberley Kimball Kimiko or Joakim.A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O’Hara in Rudyard Kipling’s book Kim. From the early 1900s till the 1960s the name Kim was used in English-speaking countries mostly for boys because of the popularity of this book. Another use of the name in literature is in the opening of Edna Ferber’s 1926 novel Show Boat.