Jimmie
Feminine · “heel-holder”
Jimmie is given to both — 22,999 girls and 112,267 boys since 1880. See Jimmie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Jimmie for a daughter is the American South's naming practice written down: a girl given her father's name in the form the household actually used, with the -ie ending of the period attached.
How old is the name Jimmie?
Jimmie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Jimmie alive today was born around 1935, making them about 90 years old. About 8,100 people named Jimmie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jimmie most popular?
Jimmie peaked in 1934, reaching #254 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 14,688 places below that high. See the whole 1934 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ya'aqov to Jimmie
The story of Jimmie
Naming a daughter after a father or grandfather was ordinary practice in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America, and what got written down was often the familiar form. That is how Jimmie, Willie, Johnnie, Bobbie and Billie all came to hold real places on the girls' chart at once. Jimmie for girls peaked around 1930 and faded with the practice itself.
Meaning
heel-holder, supplanter
Through James, from the Hebrew Ya'aqov. Genesis explains it by the birth of twins, the younger gripping the elder's heel, and the same word is used elsewhere for supplanting or overtaking. The name is among the best documented in the Hebrew Bible.
How the name formed
- Ya'aqov
- Iacomus
- James
- Jimmie
Related forms: Jimmy · Jaime · Giacoma
Pronouncing Jimmie
JIM-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said identically for either sex.
Nicknames for Jimmie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1943578 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #254reached in 1934
- Change vs 2020
- −16.7%5 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jimmie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jimmy in English — spelling variant
- Jaime in Spanish — related form
- Giacoma in Italian — related form
Jimmies among us
people named Jimmie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Jimmie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Elvira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jimmie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Elvira climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Elvira's path sketches the road Jimmie is walking now.
Jimmie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jimmie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jimmie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- James stands behind it as one of the most-used men's names in European history.
- It carries a real and specific piece of American naming history.
- Warm and immediately easy to say.
- The name reads as masculine to most English speakers today.
- It is firmly period-coded to the first half of the twentieth century.
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Feminine · #14942 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jimmies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,100 people named Jimmie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jimmie in 2025?
- Jimmie ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jimmie?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Jimmie — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jimmie with classmates?
- Jimmie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jimmie
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