Kim (given name)

In Kenya, it is short for various male names such as Kimutai and Kimani.

A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim, published in 1901.

[1] In Scandinavia, Kim can more often be used as a male name in its own right, being a common short form of Joakim.

In Russia Ким (Kim) is a diminutive/nickname of Ioakim (Russian: Иоаким), "Joachim".

[2] Its popularity in the early Soviet era was due to being reinterpreted as the acronym for Коммунистический Интернационал Молодежи (Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi, Young Communist International).