Pim
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: a diminutive of the male given name Willem
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 24K
- FIFinland≈1 in 60K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
10,386 people
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
OE *Pymming 'son of Pymma'; first attested Pimme filius Sirith 1204
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pim is read(measured from records)
Pim is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Dutch39%
a diminutive of the male given name Willem
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
OE *Pymming 'son of Pymma'; first attested Pimme filius Sirith 1204
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Thai12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pim in Thai.
- German9.4%
männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische und niederländische Koseform - eigentlich
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pim 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 10,386 | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 91K | listed | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 434 | 1 in 24K | 434 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 344K | listed | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 847K | — | Pim | 3 |
| FI Finland | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 38 | — | — |
| NO Norway | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 38 | — | — |
10,386 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Pim is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Prominent in Quaker records, this name came to Ireland in mid-seventeenth century and has since been identified with Co. Leix as well as Dublin
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In mww, the (external) female genitals, the female sex member, the vulva
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Powhatan.
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)
- Pim Mulierb. 1865NLDutch sports pioneer, one of the founders of modern sports in the Netherlands (1865–1954)
- Pim Lierb. 1918NLDutch lawyer and jurist (1918–2015)
- Pim de la Parrab. 1940SRSurinamese-Dutch film director
- Pim van Lommelb. 1943NLDutch cardiologist
- Pim Fortuynb. 1948NLDutch politician (1948–2002)
- Pim Koopmanb. 1953NLDutch musician (1953-2009)
- Pim Verbeekb. 1956NLDutch association football player and manager
- Pim Ligthartb. 1988NLDutch road cyclist
- Pim Wesselsb. 1991NLDutch actor
- Pim Hawinkelsfilm cinematographer
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #79,431 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Pim come from?
- OE *Pymming 'son of Pymma'; first attested Pimme filius Sirith 1204 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Pim a male or female name?
- Pim 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 are other forms of the name Pim?
- In the etymology graph, William, Guillermo and Willie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Willem and Wilhelmus.
- In which country does Pim have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Pim, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pim most common?
- Pim is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Pim?
- A machine transcription gives /pɪm/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What does the name Pim mean?
- In Dutch, a diminutive of the male given name Willem
- How common is the name Pim?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10,386 people named Pim, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pimThe 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, “Pim”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.