# Mimi (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mimi/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,950 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 6,950 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 883, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French and Italian Mimi.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 3,819 |
| 2012 | 31 | 4,677 |
| 2013 | 28 | 4,982 |
| 2014 | 25 | 5,415 |
| 2015 | 23 | 5,782 |
| 2016 | 20 | 6,341 |
| 2017 | 21 | 5,968 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,643 |
| 2019 | 23 | 5,564 |
| 2020 | 19 | 6,248 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,332 |
| 2022 | 26 | 5,127 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6,843 |
| 2024 | 25 | 5,249 |
| 2025 | 14 | 7,765 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 1,196 |
| 2012 | 39 | 934 |
| 2013 | 27 | 1,253 |
| 2014 | 27 | 1,234 |
| 2015 | 27 | 1,240 |
| 2016 | 20 | 1,571 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,330 |
| 2018 | 34 | 1,035 |
| 2019 | 35 | 996 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1,267 |
| 2021 | 38 | 918 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,326 |
| 2023 | 28 | 1,169 |
| 2024 | 27 | 1,230 |
| 2025 | 40 | 872 |

## People named Mimi

- Mimi Rogers, American actress
- Mimi Keene, British actress
- Mimi Kennedy, American actress
- Mimi Leder, American film/television director and producer
- Mimi Kodheli, Albanian politician
- Mimi Hafida, Algerian poet and artist (born 1965)
- Mimi Walters, American politician in California (born 1962)
- Mimi Kuzyk, Canadian actress (b. 1952)
- Mimi Miyagi, American pornographic actress
- Mimi Belete, Bahraini middle- and long-distance runner of Ethiopian descent
- Mimi Hristova, Bulgarian amateur wrestler
- Mimi Fariña, American musician (1945–2001)

## 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.