Jimmy
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɪmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jimmy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 65th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 572(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 657
- SGSingapore≈1 in 863
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #497 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 589 (measured from records)
- 1 in 572 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ג'ימי in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jimmy is read(measured from records)
Jimmy is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English69%
- Spanish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jimmy in Spanish.
- French5.4%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jimmy, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jimmy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Jimmy | 72 |
| US United States | #214 | 173,056 | 1 in 1.9K | 172K | Jimmy | 589 |
| PH Philippines | #116 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 657 | — | Jimmy | 134 |
| FR France | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 36K | ג'ימי | 15 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 29,155 | 1 in 580 | 29K | — | 56 |
| SE Sweden | #156 | 17,823 | 1 in 572 | 18K | Jimmy | 128 |
| SG Singapore | #65 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 863 | — | Jimmy | 130 |
| IE Ireland | #119 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 932 | — | Jimmy | 96 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jimmy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Jimmy är en engelsk smekform till → Jim. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 25 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
English, Scottish, and Irish: pet form of JIM . Variant: Jimmie .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jimmy Carterb. 1924USpresident of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
- James Peter Greavesb. 1940GBnot in their usual nameEnglish professional football player (1940-2021)
- Jimmy Cliffb. 1944JMJamaican musician (1944–2025)
- Jimmy Walesb. 1966USco-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)
- Jimmy Moralesb. 1969GTComedian and former President of Guatemala
- Jimmy Shergillb. 1970INIndian actor
- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbainkb. 1972NLDutch association football player and manager
- Jimmy Wongb. 1986USAmerican actor and singer
- Jimmy Bennettb. 1996USAmerican actor
- MrBeastb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican YouTuber, media personality and businessman (born 1998)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 124 sources across 70 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 172K | #323 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 36K | #881 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 29K | #85 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18K | #244 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 754 | #323 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 291 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 76 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Jimmy?
- In the etymology graph, Jaime, Jamie and Jacob are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of James and Jay.
- Is Jimmy a male or female name?
- Jimmy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Jimmy mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jimmy?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɪmi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jimmy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Jimmy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jimmy.
- Where is Jimmy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jimmy is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 572 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jimmy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 173,056 people named Jimmy in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Jimmy compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Jimmy is the 65th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jimmy?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jimmyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jimmy” — the 65th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.