A modern spelling of Kimber or Kimberly, an English place-based surname meaning "Cyneburg's meadow."
Kymber is a phonetic respelling of Kimberly, a name rooted in the Old English place name Cyneburg leah — roughly "Cyneburh's woodland clearing" — where Cyneburg was itself a compound of cyne (royal) and burg (fortress or settlement). The name thus has deeply English topographical roots, referring to a specific clearing in Nottinghamshire. It entered the personal name lexicon through the diamond-mining town of Kimberley in South Africa, named in 1871 after the Earl of Kimberley, and gained wide usage as a feminine given name in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in the United States and Australia.
Kimberly was one of the signature names of the postwar American baby boom, peaking in popularity between the 1960s and 1970s and producing a generation of Kims. Like many names of that era, it subsequently attracted respellings — Kimberly, Kimberlee, Kimberleigh, and Kymber — as parents sought to personalize a name that had become nearly ubiquitous. The K-beginning variant Kymber strips away the expected -erly suffix and gives the name a slightly different cadence and visual identity while preserving its familiar sound.
Today Kymber occupies an interesting cultural position: recognizable but uncommon enough to feel distinctive, it carries the warmth of a mid-century classic while the alternate spelling signals the contemporary naming creativity of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. It reads as both familiar and fresh, a name that a bearer can claim as specifically their own version of something widely known.