Kimball

English

From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.

Kimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)

(countable) A surname from Welsh.
(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 1, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:
  The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
A placename
1. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada
2. A place in the United States
  1. A city in Minnesota
  2. A city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
  3. A town in South Dakota
  4. A town in Tennessee
  5. A town in West Virginia
  6. A town in Wisconsin
3. Ellipsis of Kimball County.