Mim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Demure; shy
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mim is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 63K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mim itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Demure; shy.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #268 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Mim | 68 |
| US United States | — | 9,534as Ming | 1 in 35K | 6.1K | Mim | 167 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 3 | Mim | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Mim | 71 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Mim | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 2 | Mim | 78 |
| SE Sweden | — | 374as Ming | 1 in 27K | 374 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 101 | Mim | 9 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)Mim 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 Turkish, Name of the 24th letter of the Arabic alphabet, mem (م), representing the sound /m/.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, first-person singular single-possession possessive of mi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Alacatlatzala Mixtec.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, mime (pantomime, form of acting without words)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, first-person singular prepositional pronoun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Mim Kemal Ökeb. 1884TRTurkish physician and statesperson (1884–1955)
- Mim El Messaoudib. 1947BEBelgian creator
- Mim Mantashab. 1996BDBangladeshi model
- Mim Stromb. 2001AUAustralian rules footballer
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 252 | #81,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 134 | #127,494 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #32,075 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Mim a male or female name?
- Mim is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Mim mean, and where does it come from?
- Demure; shy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mim?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɪm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Mim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mim.
- How common is the name Mim?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Mim, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Mim compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mim is the 268th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mimThe 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, “Mim” — the 268th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.