In 2025, 14 US girls were named Mimi, making it the 7,765th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,516 places from #5,249 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 25 girls named Mimi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #796, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 168, in 1961. For comparison, it was #5,782 in 2015 and #891 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mimi in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 6,950 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,334 babies named Mimi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 199 US girls were named Mimi; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Miami, Myami and Myomi are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Sakizaya. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.