Shimmy
#11,781 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shimmy has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #11,781 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Shimmy, 2025
1 in 553,000
Shimmy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shimmy?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,781
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shimmy 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shimmy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shimmys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shimmy was born before 2023 — so the typical Shimmy is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 37
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Shimmy 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
- +352
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +27
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 46.2%
- Peak was 2023 (13)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shimmy
Shimmy is not the most common spelling — Jimmy is, with 79.5% against Shimmy's 0.01%.
Where Shimmy is used
Across 1910–2025, Shimmy was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,394,467 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Shimmy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shimmy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shimmy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shimmy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.