girls:
816 births since 1888
#4900 (14th percentile)
boys:
153.1k births since 1880
#225 (95th percentile)
overall:
153.9k births since 1880
#490 (94th percentile)
The name Jim is the #490 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 153,874 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #225 (95.1% percentile) for all time with 153,058 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,900 (14.2% percentile) for all time with 816 births since 1888.
Jim has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1888 for girls).
The name Jim has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jim reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 89.5% percentile (ranked #70) with 2,626 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 3,268 births per million (ranked 77.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1962, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jim ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jim reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #572) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 36 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jim".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jim. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jim is pronounced as jihm, which has 1 syllables.
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