Given name & surname · Russian

Ким

“Young Communist International”

Ким (Kim) is a masculine given name. It is used in Russian.

RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Kim.

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Meaning & origin

What it means

Ким goes back to a word meaning “Young Communist International.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Ким is Kim written in Cyrillic. An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.

Explained through its name family

Ким’s family of names

In Russian usage, Ким has a conventional equivalent in the English form Kim. In Russian usage, Ким can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kim. In Russian usage, Ким as a surname has a transliteration in Kim.

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Ким has relatives in 9 languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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Across languages 5

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