Girl name origins & meanings
- Old English : Chief
Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Chief
Family name origins & meanings
- Welsh : from an Old Welsh personal name, Cynbel, composed of the elements cyn ‘chief’ + bel ‘war’. This was borne by Welsh chieftain in Roman times whose name is recorded in a Latinized form as Cunobelinus; he provided the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
- English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, so named from a Celtic word related to Welsh cyfyl ‘border’.
- Possibly also a variant of English Kimball or Kimble.
- It is also quite likely that this name has assimilated some instances of German Kembel.