Given name & surname
Klim
“to press, clamp + to climb”
Klim is a masculine given name with more than one origin.
Original LatinClemens
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “to press, clamp + to climb.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Klim has more than one origin: as a Polish and Lower Sorbian surname, it comes from Latin Clemens; as a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “to press, clamp + to climb”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Klim developed from Clemens.
Klim’s family of names
In English usage, Klim developed from the Latin form Clemens. In Russian usage, Klim is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Клим.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Klim
- Klim ChuryumovUkrainian astronomer and children's poet (1937–2016)
- Klim ShipenkoRussian director and screenwriterborn 1983
- Klim KostinRussian ice hockey player (born 1999)
- Klim ZhukovRussian writer and historianborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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