girls:
15.9k births since 1966
#1191 (79th percentile)
boys:
8 births since 2004
#4578 (0th percentile)
overall:
16k births since 1966
#2056 (73rd percentile)
The name Jimena is the #2,056 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,957 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 73.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,191 (79.2% percentile) for all time with 15,949 births since 1966. For boys, it ranks #4,578 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 8 births since 2004.
Jimena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Jimena is available in 45 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (45 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jimena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jimena reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 62.4% percentile (ranked #361) with 398 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 429 births per million (ranked 62.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jimena ranks #427 for girls (55.0% percentile) with 365 births per million, which is 85.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jimena reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #844) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jimena".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Jimena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.7% confident that Jimena is pronounced as hee-MEH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hih-MEH-nuh, at 13.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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