Kimmel was born on November 13, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the neighborhood of Mill Basin as the eldest of three children of Joan (née Iacono), a homemaker, and James John Kimmel, who worked at American Express and was an IBM executive.
He is, and was raised, Catholic, and as a child was an altar server. Kimmel’s mother is of Italian ancestry from Ischia, whose family migrated to the United States following the 1883 earthquake, while two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were German immigrants. His family’s surname was “Kümmel” (“caraway” in German) several generations back.
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8/20/22
I read an article that purports the name to be derived from Kuhnmar meaning brave warrior.