girls:
6.9k births since 1900
#1977 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.9k births since 1900
#3240 (58th percentile)
The name Mimi is the #3,240 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,908 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 58.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,977 (65.4% percentile) for all time with 6,908 births since 1900.
Mimi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for girls in 1900). Birth data for Mimi is available in 118 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Mimi reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 20.7% percentile (ranked #625) with 81 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 81 births per million (ranked 20.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mimi ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 11.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mimi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mimi is pronounced as MEE-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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