Jimmy

What Jimmy means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jimmy yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1947, with 7,881 babies; 291 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jimmy?

US: Falling: down from #575 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #329 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1944, when 6,320 boys got the name (#41 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

• About 1 in 5,870 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,924 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AR (0.72 per 1,000 boys), KY (0.54 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.53 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jimmy is #846 in the US and #427 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jimmy were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jamey24 US
• Jimi0 US · 8 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jimmy

Boys

• Joshua#66“to save”^*
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Andrew#73“manly”^*
• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*
• Justin#233“just”^*
• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*

For a sister

• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Jasmine#206Editor’s note Down from #110 in 2015 to #206 in 2025 in the US
• Ashley#164“ash tree + wood, clearing”^*
• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jimmy’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.