A male given name transferred from the surname.
"Kim is the most common surname found throughout Korea."
A Korean surname, from Korean, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김 (Gim), hanja: 金), the most common Korean surname.
Kim is a shortened form derived from the names Kimball and Kimberley when used for men, or Kimberley and Kimberly when used for women. It entered English simply by being clipped from these longer personal names rather than evolving from an older word with a different meaning.