Jimma
#9,130 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jimma has been given to 157 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #9,130 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Jimma, 2025
1 in 301,000
Jimma over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jimma?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,130
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jimma sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jimma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jimmas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jimma was born before 2015 — so the typical Jimma is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 157
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Jimma 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
- +2,441
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +74
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,199
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.22×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 68.8%
- Peak was 2013 (16)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Jimma
Jimma is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 69.7% against Jimma's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Jimma is used
Across 1910–2025, Jimma was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 435,161 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Oklahoma1 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. Jimma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jimma by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jimma
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jimma
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.