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Jimmi

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Supplanter, heel-grabber, through James

Jimmi has been given to 330 babies in the U.S. since 1943. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% girls, 15% boys all-time.

Babies named Jimmi, 2005

1 in 769,000

Jimmi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jimmi over time

In 2011, Jimmi went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jimmi: meaning, origin, and history

Supplanter, heel-grabber, through James

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jimmi means

Jimmi belongs to the name family reached through Jimmi → James → James → Iacomus. Its meaning is “supplanter, heel-grabber”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jimmi is used in English and Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include James, Jimmy and Iacomus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 281 girls were recorded with the name Jimmi between 1943 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1972; its best national rank was #4,262 in 1945.

In the United States, 49 boys were recorded with the name Jimmi between 1990 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2011; its best national rank was #6,764 in 1990.

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 Jimmi?

Jimmi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jimmi 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jimmi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jimmis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jimmi was born before 1974 — so the typical Jimmi is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
260
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Jimmi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1972 (13)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,262
1945

Spellings of Jimmi

Jimmi is not the most common spelling — Jimmie is, with 23.4% against Jimmi's 0.29%.

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.

Jimmi around the world

Where Jimmi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jimmi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,262
1945
Peak year
1972
13 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
281
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,764
1990
Peak year
2011
8 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jimmi

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

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Sibling names for Jimmi

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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