Jimena
Jimena was given to 515 girls in 2025, #578 among girls’ names; 17,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,900 Americans named Jimena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jimena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jimena mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Jimena is “a female given name from Old Spanish” Its etymology gives the sense “son” (seme).
Inherited from Old Spanish Ximen, from the Basque personal name Semen, from seme (“son”).
/xiˈmena/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jimena?
#578 among girls’ names, 2025
Jimena fell from #457 in 2015 to #578 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.39 to 0.32 per 1,000.
830 babies in 2016, the peak
Jimena peaked in 2016, when 830 girls were given it, #401 among girls’ names. The 515 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 515 | #578 | 0.32 |
| 2024 | 565 | #537 | 0.35 |
| 2023 | 640 | #479 | 0.40 |
| 2022 | 636 | #498 | 0.39 |
| 2021 | 649 | #484 | 0.40 |
| 2020 | 591 | #513 | 0.37 |
| 2019 | 661 | #473 | 0.39 |
| 2018 | 714 | #448 | 0.42 |
| 2017 | 778 | #407 | 0.45 |
| 2016 | 830 | #401 | 0.47 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 693 | #457 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 731 | #439 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 670 | #454 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 641 | #477 | 0.36 |
| 2011 | 716 | #437 | 0.41 |
| 2010 | 797 | #403 | 0.45 |
| 2009 | 806 | #392 | 0.44 |
| 2008 | 803 | #402 | 0.42 |
| 2007 | 595 | #525 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 669 | #471 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 811 | #387 | 0.44 |
| 2004 | 640 | #464 | 0.35 |
| 2003 | 542 | #520 | 0.30 |
| 2002 | 499 | #550 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 262 | #875 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,218 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,121 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,378 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,675 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,170 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,171 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,676 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,528 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,993 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,654 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,050 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,555 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,045 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,784 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,028 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,998 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jimena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jimena has been given almost only to girls: 8 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jimena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jimena, and how old are they?
16,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 17,042 Americans ever recorded as Jimena. The median Jimena alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 13,143 people named Jimena (13,085 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jimena born?
The states with the most babies named Jimena are California, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 122 | #270 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 112 | #306 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 22 | #748 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 22 | #499 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 17 | #630 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 16 | #431 | 1.6× |
| New York | 16 | #959 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 15 | #370 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 13 | #526 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #626 | 0.5× |
Where Jimena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jimena is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jimena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 56,775 babies since 1880, Jimena is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 515 of their 2,201 babies (23%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jimena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jimena and names like it
- Compare Jimena and XimenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJimena peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jimena since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Jimena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jimena alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.