Lim
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lim has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 1885. 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 1900, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Lim, 1934
1 in 346,000
Lim 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lim?
Lim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1934
- 1 in 346,000
- 6 of 2,076,780 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 172,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1934
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 239,920 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lim sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1934 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 239,920 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lims were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lim was born before 1900 — so the typical Lim is around 125 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1880s
- 36.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1880s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Lim 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1900 (7)
- Years since peak
- 125
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Lim around the world
Where Lim 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.
- Canada2020–2020#3,347in 2020
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Lim by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lim
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lim
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.