Mima
Mima was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 737 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mima?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,147, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1935, the peak
Mima peaked in 1935, when 25 girls were given it, #1,504 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #13,147 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,739 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,005 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,372 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,984 | 4.5 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,961 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,827 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,062 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,274 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,277 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #7,010 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,912 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,736 | 2.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,349 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,237 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,603 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,234 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,287 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,589 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,051 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,462 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,526 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,077 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,782 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,350 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,300 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,504 | 23.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,144 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,502 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,325 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,384 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,515 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,931 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,904 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,654 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,458 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,355 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,191 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,862 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,564 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,913 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,782 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,151 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,938 | 17.3 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,167 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,932 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,558 | 23.4 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,381 | 13.1 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,195 | 37.8 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,561 | 25.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,754 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,288 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,498 | 27.4 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,601 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,406 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,292 | 34.1 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,201 | 37.6 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,520 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,012 | 47.2 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,081 | 42.5 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,230 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,096 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,266 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,111 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 11 | #941 | 51.7 |
| 1892 | 10 | #997 | 47.1 |
| 1891 | 11 | #875 | 59.3 |
| 1890 | 12 | #811 | 63.0 |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,003 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 14 | #712 | 78.4 |
| 1887 | 11 | #718 | 75.4 |
| 1886 | 9 | #809 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 11 | #681 | 82.7 |
| 1884 | 9 | #774 | 69.8 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,006 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 7 | #792 | 64.9 |
| 1880 | 6 | #811 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mima, and how old are they?
An estimated 135 Americans named Mima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 31 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 381 people named Mima (373 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 404,141 babies since 1880, Mima is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 12,105 babies recorded by SSA was a Mima (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 Mima
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 Mima and names like it
- Compare Mima and MiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sMima peaked in 1935.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mima since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Mima.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Mima alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with MMost given first.