girls:
2.2k births since 1911
#3657 (36th percentile)
boys:
288.1k births since 1883
#127 (97th percentile)
overall:
290.4k births since 1883
#268 (97th percentile)
The name Jimmy is the #268 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 290,353 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 96.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #127 (97.3% percentile) for all time with 288,135 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #3,657 (36.0% percentile) for all time with 2,218 births since 1911.
Jimmy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1911 for girls). Birth data for Jimmy is available in 138 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (138 years for boys and 88 years for girls). 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 Jimmy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jimmy reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 93.0% percentile (ranked #42) with 4,320 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 4,550 births per million (ranked 92.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1962, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jimmy ranks #626 for boys (31.3% percentile) with 163 births per million, which is 3.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jimmy reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 8.1% percentile (ranked #535) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 47 births per million (ranked 8.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jimmy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jimmy is pronounced as JIH-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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