Mima
given name · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of mimer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 873K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.7K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 12K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular past historic of mimer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Mima | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Mima | 56 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Mima | 6 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Mima | 48 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Mima | 9 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Mima | 6 |
| US United States | — | 381 | 1 in 873K | 373 | Mima | 142 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 29 | 1 in 73K | 31 | — | 3 |
| ZM Zambia | #755 | — | — | — | Mima | 5 |
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; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Mima is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, mime actress, mime actor (female)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, Mimas (moon of Saturn)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to lip-sync
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to mimic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MIMÁ, mimez, vb. I. Tranz. A interpreta un rol, o piesă etc. sau a exprima ceva prin mimică, prin gesturi, ca un mim (2). ♦ A imita gesturile, apucăturile cuiva.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Mima Itob. 2000JPJapanese table tennis player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 373 | #25,022 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 31 | #2,882 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 29 | #1,492 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 29 | #1,474 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 28 | #1,477 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 28 | #1,436 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 27 | #1,456 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 26 | #1,455 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 24 | #1,513 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 24 | #1,488 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 23 | #1,506 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 23 | #1,489 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 does the name Mima mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of mimer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mima?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪmə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mima a male or female name?
- Mima is a female 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.
- In which country does Mima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Mima in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mima.
- How common is the name Mima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 381 people named Mima in 2020, about 1 in 873 thousand residents.
- How common is Mima compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Mima is the 755th most common given name of 8,845 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mimaThe 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, “Mima” — the 755th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.