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Dim

#12,237 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dim has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #12,237 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Dim, 2025

1 in 474,000

Dim over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dim: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dim means

Dim is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dim is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 168 girls were recorded with the name Dim between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,079 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,103 in 2020 to #12,237 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,144 in 2015 to #12,237 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dim?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,237
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dim was born before 2017 — so the typical Dim is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
72.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
168
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 72.6% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Dim rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+271
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,134
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,093
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.0%
Peak was 2018 (20)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,079
2018

Where Dim is used

Across 1910–2025, Dim was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 484,390 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Tennessee1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dim by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,237
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,134
Best rank ever
#6,079
2018
Peak year
2018
20 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
168
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Dim

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dim

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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