Meaning not yet researched.
Jim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #45 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #45 in 1882; #3,159 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,159 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #45.
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Jim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #45 in 1882 · most boys in one year: 5,688 (1959).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Jim, making it the 3,159th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,335 places from #4,494 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 23 boys named Jim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #45, reached in 1882. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5,688, in 1959. For comparison, it was #2,831 in 2015 and #139 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jim in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 345 babies with the name. In all, 153,938 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 35,754 babies named Jim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 357 US boys were named Jim; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880), Jacob (990,532 babies since 1880), Diego (126,405 babies since 1880) and Santiago (103,965 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jimm, Jyme and Jimme are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jimmie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jimm (22), Jyme (20), Jimme (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Jim is listed as a nickname for James, Jimmie.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 38 | #3,159 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,494 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,060 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,437 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,212 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,952 |
| 2019 | — | — | 39 | #3,076 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,022 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,158 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,811 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,831 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,164 |
| 2013 | — | — | 60 | #2,188 |
| 2012 | — | — | 58 | #2,250 |
| 2011 | — | — | 61 | #2,157 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,106 |
| 2009 | — | — | 61 | #2,193 |
| 2008 | — | — | 88 | #1,727 |
| 2007 | — | — | 79 | #1,837 |
| 2006 | — | — | 97 | #1,542 |
| 2005 | — | — | 92 | #1,540 |
| 2004 | — | — | 102 | #1,400 |
| 2003 | — | — | 101 | #1,351 |
| 2002 | — | — | 117 | #1,197 |
| 2001 | — | — | 105 | #1,271 |
| 2000 | — | — | 120 | #1,157 |
| 1999 | — | — | 104 | #1,219 |
| 1998 | — | — | 123 | #1,069 |
| 1997 | — | — | 129 | #998 |
| 1996 | — | — | 157 | #875 |
| 1995 | — | — | 158 | #861 |
| 1994 | — | — | 171 | #808 |
| 1993 | — | — | 167 | #820 |
| 1992 | — | — | 195 | #741 |
| 1991 | — | — | 184 | #753 |
| 1990 | — | — | 219 | #685 |
| 1989 | — | — | 193 | #709 |
| 1988 | — | — | 215 | #646 |
| 1987 | — | — | 241 | #583 |
| 1986 | — | — | 222 | #598 |
| 1985 | — | — | 207 | #608 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,104 | 256 | #541 |
| 1983 | — | — | 279 | #502 |
| 1982 | — | — | 313 | #483 |
| 1981 | — | — | 319 | #466 |
| 1980 | — | — | 302 | #486 |
| 1979 | — | — | 369 | #415 |
| 1978 | — | — | 359 | #410 |
| 1977 | — | — | 408 | #391 |
| 1976 | — | — | 420 | #373 |
| 1975 | — | — | 439 | #372 |
| 1974 | — | — | 541 | #326 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,948 | 585 | #302 |
| 1972 | — | — | 707 | #275 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,250 | 934 | #246 |
| 1970 | — | — | 1,259 | #204 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,551 | 1,427 | #190 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,874 | 1,502 | #177 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,153 | 1,806 | #151 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,998 | 2,197 | #136 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,634 | 2,772 | #116 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,473 | 3,644 | #101 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,565 | 4,237 | #92 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,383 | 4,715 | #85 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,367 | 5,352 | #78 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,940 | 5,549 | #75 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,442 | 5,688 | #70 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,628 | 4,921 | #87 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,693 | 3,543 | #106 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,361 | 2,188 | #148 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,932 | 1,699 | #167 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,834 | 1,593 | #174 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,788 | 1,535 | #173 |
| 1952 | — | — | 1,523 | #172 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,578 | 1,595 | #164 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,987 | 1,930 | #139 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,935 | 2,725 | #108 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,237 | 3,808 | #86 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,969 | 4,640 | #77 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,954 | 4,336 | #73 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,666 | 3,625 | #68 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,147 | 3,744 | #68 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,630 | 3,682 | #75 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,351 | 3,514 | #74 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,390 | 2,843 | #80 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,154 | 2,715 | #78 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,075 | 2,636 | #75 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,384 | 2,497 | #81 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,289 | 2,347 | #82 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,536 | 2,268 | #85 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,151 | 2,244 | #90 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,037 | 2,207 | #90 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,327 | 1,875 | #98 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,303 | 1,765 | #104 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,153 | 1,520 | #116 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,064 | 1,464 | #125 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,787 | 1,290 | #132 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,864 | 1,237 | #137 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,980 | 1,293 | #136 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,630 | 1,165 | #143 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,692 | 1,124 | #147 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,365 | 992 | #160 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,407 | 867 | #167 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,060 | 881 | #169 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,561 | 879 | #165 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,222 | 838 | #165 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,194 | 848 | #158 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,724 | 827 | #165 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,256 | 774 | #163 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,990 | 684 | #177 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,704 | 668 | #170 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,342 | 513 | #174 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,234 | 473 | #154 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,794 | 401 | #149 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,865 | 245 | #134 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,295 | 331 | #100 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,673 | 259 | #105 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,266 | 220 | #117 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,210 | 281 | #90 |
| 1906 | — | — | 261 | #90 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,804 | 236 | #95 |
| 1904 | — | — | 266 | #85 |
| 1903 | — | — | 257 | #84 |
| 1902 | — | — | 300 | #77 |
| 1901 | — | — | 239 | #81 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,367 | 399 | #68 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,722 | 261 | #71 |
| 1898 | — | — | 269 | #77 |
| 1897 | — | — | 252 | #75 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,169 | 281 | #71 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,710 | 278 | #71 |
| 1894 | — | — | 287 | #70 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,351 | 255 | #74 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,126 | 334 | #64 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,268 | 288 | #63 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,144 | 336 | #62 |
| 1889 | — | — | 328 | #58 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,377 | 362 | #56 |
| 1887 | — | — | 339 | #50 |
| 1886 | — | — | 389 | #49 |
| 1885 | — | — | 370 | #46 |
| 1884 | — | — | 346 | #55 |
| 1883 | — | — | 322 | #52 |
| 1882 | — | — | 396 | #45 |
| 1881 | — | — | 323 | #47 |
| 1880 | — | — | 345 | #49 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).