Jimmy
Jimmy is ranked 859th among boys in 2024 (282 births). Its best rank was 41st, in 1944–1945.
- Rank in 2024
- #859down 38 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2820.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19477,881 births
- Best rank
- #41first in 1944
- Since 1883
- 290,651people given the name
The story in the numbers
288,433 boys have been named Jimmy in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 7,881 births — 0.43% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 282 births in 2024, against 7,881 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1940s alone account for 22%. It has spent 137 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 45 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,218 girls have also been given it, 0.76% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jimmy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | |
| 1890s | 123 | |
| 1900s | 302 | |
| 1910s | 1,294 | |
| 1920s | 7,332 | |
| 1930s | 35,398 | |
| 1940s | 63,522 | |
| 1950s | 54,891 | |
| 1960s | 47,395 | |
| 1970s | 27,101 | |
| 1980s | 19,522 | |
| 1990s | 14,105 | |
| 2000s | 10,466 | |
| 2010s | 5,379 | |
| 2020s | 1,579 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Jimmy was the 44th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Jimmy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tommypeak 1947
- Jeraldpeak 1942
- Ronaldpeak 1947
- Sammypeak 1947
- Jerrypeak 1947
- Dennypeak 1947
- Gaylonpeak 1949
- Jeroldpeak 1942
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.