Jimi
Jimi was last recorded in 2024, when 11 babies were given it; 1,908 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Jimi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 27 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jimi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jimi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jimi is “a rare spelling variant of Jimmy, diminutive of the male given name James.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jimi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,575, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1971, the peak
Jimi peaked in 1971, when 66 babies were given it (46 boys, #1,222 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,351 | 6 | #11,575 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #7,963 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 14 | #6,293 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,327 | 16 | #5,652 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,185 | 13 | #6,449 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,040 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,622 | 13 | #6,515 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 17 | #5,394 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,418 | 11 | #7,357 |
| 2015 | under 5 | 19 | #4,958 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,266 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,462 | 20 | #4,708 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 18 | #5,129 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 10 | #7,759 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,261 | 16 | #5,591 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,107 | 15 | #5,934 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 17 | #5,352 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 21 | #4,562 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 21 | #4,426 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,664 | 23 | #3,985 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 17 | #4,883 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 17 | #4,697 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,399 | 22 | #3,850 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,493 | 16 | #4,769 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 13 | #5,419 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,779 | 16 | #4,444 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,883 | 15 | #4,510 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,215 | 14 | #4,552 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,444 | 15 | #4,275 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,349 | 26 | #2,799 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,142 | 13 | #4,648 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,744 | 27 | #2,660 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,339 | 23 | #2,946 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,765 | 22 | #2,947 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,529 | 23 | #2,815 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,391 | 16 | #3,520 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,434 | 26 | #2,324 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,074 | 22 | #2,509 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,342 | 20 | #2,638 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,208 | 15 | #3,137 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,025 | 22 | #2,323 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,969 | 21 | #2,373 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,338 | 24 | #2,182 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,218 | 19 | #2,533 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,671 | 25 | #2,139 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,714 | 32 | #1,766 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,786 | 26 | #1,939 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,509 | 31 | #1,721 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,032 | 35 | #1,558 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,554 | 28 | #1,767 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,108 | 32 | #1,562 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,695 | 28 | #1,676 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,325 | 37 | #1,400 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,304 | 46 | #1,222 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,251 | 29 | #1,592 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,846 | 15 | #2,255 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,330 | 10 | #2,824 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,757 | 5 | #4,241 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,642 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,050 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,190 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,701 | 7 | #3,478 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,664 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,114 | 17 | #2,034 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,983 | 8 | #3,205 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,442 | 17 | #2,007 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,800 | 20 | #1,801 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,384 | 14 | #2,228 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,416 | 6 | #3,724 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,287 | 10 | #2,668 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,833 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,070 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,771 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,935 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,602 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,288 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,271 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jimi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,908 Americans recorded as Jimi, 35% are girls and 65% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jimi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jimi, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,908 Americans ever recorded as Jimi. The median Jimi alive today is 42 years old; half are between 27 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,754 people named Jimi (640 women and girls, 1,114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,732 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 203 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 553 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 494 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 319 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 189 |
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 Jimi born?
The states with the most babies named Jimi are California, Texas and New York, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 124 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Jimi 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 428,495 babies since 1880, Jimi is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 326 babies recorded by SSA was a Jimi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jimi
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 Jimi and names like it
- Compare Jimi and JimmyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJimi peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jimi since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Jimi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jimi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.