# Jimi (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jimi/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,908 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,241 / 667 (35% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 391, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | 10,220 |
| 1998 | 10 | 8,890 |
| 1999 | 8 | 10,786 |
| 2001 | 5 | 16,500 |
| 2002 | 6 | 14,405 |
| 2005 | 5 | 17,671 |
| 2009 | 6 | 16,113 |
| 2010 | 5 | 18,270 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,467 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,423 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,627 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,045 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,190 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,332 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,356 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 15 | 5,938 |
| 2010 | 16 | 5,595 |
| 2011 | 10 | 7,766 |
| 2012 | 18 | 5,135 |
| 2013 | 20 | 4,711 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,271 |
| 2015 | 19 | 4,960 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,362 |
| 2017 | 17 | 5,398 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,519 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6,453 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,657 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,298 |
| 2023 | 10 | 7,968 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,580 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,158 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,370 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,339 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2,664 |

## People named Jimi

- Jimi Jamison, American singer (1951–2014)
- Jimi Mistry, British actor
- Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, German actor
- Jimi Heselden, British businessman (1948-2010)
- Jimi Tenor, Finnish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer
- Jimi Salonen, Finnish freestyle skier
- Jimi Tauriainen, Finnish footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.