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Mimi

#7,763 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Maria

Mimi has been given to 6,950 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #7,763 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Mimi, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mimi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mimi means

Mimi is a diminutive of Maria.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mimi → Maria → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Origin, language, and formation

Mimi is used in English, French and Italian.

Mimi comes through fr,it Mimi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria, Marie and Domenico.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Mimi is pronounced /ˈmi.mi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,950 girls were recorded with the name Mimi between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 168 in 1961; its best national rank was #795 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,244 in 2020 to #7,763 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,780 in 2015 to #7,763 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 Mimi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,763
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mimi 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mimi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mimis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mimi was born before 1963 — so the typical Mimi is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,358
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (1,334).

Is Mimi 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
−2,517
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,519
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,983
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 1961 (168)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#795
1956

Spellings of Mimi

Mimi is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 30.9% against Mimi's 0.69%.

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 Mimi is used

Across 1910–2025, Mimi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 38,693 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 14,286
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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. Mimi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mimi around the world

Where Mimi 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #872
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1926–2022
    #5,025
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mimi

People whose public names include Mimi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mimi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mimi. Linked forms have their own page here.

MiniMimieMinni

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mimi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,763
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,519
Best rank ever
#795
1956
Peak year
1961
168 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,950
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Mimi

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

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Names with a curve like Mimi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mimi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mimi

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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