first name
JIM
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 99,345 people named Jim, 83.6% reported their origin as White, 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.6% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jim peaked in 1959, when 5,697 babies got the name.
At least 153,938 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jim by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #140. The largest share of babies named Jim, 42.5%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jim is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jim has been most common in Wyoming (3.4×), Montana (3.1×), and Nebraska (2.6×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.1×).
140,752 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Spelled almost the same
6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jim, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jim ranks #8,976 of 156,621, with 3,499 people. See Jim as a last name
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