How popular is “Jimmie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jimmie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jimmie” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jimmie” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jimmie” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jimmie” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jimmie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jimmie” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	39	0.000193564	15	24	-23%
1881	42	0.000217969	22	20	5%
1882	42	0.000189588	22	20	5%
1883	46	0.000212034	20	26	-13%
1884	58	0.000238231	32	26	10%
1885	53	0.00022005	28	25	6%
1886	73	0.00028592	36	37	-1%
1887	65	0.000262741	32	33	-2%
1888	68	0.000227065	36	32	6%
1889	67	0.000231877	37	30	10%
1890	79	0.000262109	45	34	14%
1891	81	0.000282552	41	40	1%
1892	89	0.000266169	51	38	15%
1893	98	0.000301332	52	46	6%
1894	97	0.000286398	53	44	9%
1895	108	0.000307675	43	65	-20%
1896	111	0.000310503	65	46	17%
1897	107	0.000308396	58	49	8%
1898	124	0.000325071	60	64	-3%
1899	115	0.000338999	54	61	-6%
1900	216	0.000479725	98	118	-9%
1901	175	0.000506055	76	99	-13%
1902	216	0.000558525	93	123	-14%
1903	211	0.000553515	83	128	-21%
1904	211	0.000522944	87	124	-18%
1905	242	0.00057086	106	136	-12%
1906	228	0.00053215	89	139	-22%
1907	269	0.00057801	109	160	-19%
1908	266	0.000544358	106	160	-20%
1909	314	0.000614212	129	185	-18%
1910	389	0.000658528	130	259	-33%
1911	366	0.000568078	123	243	-33%
1912	528	0.000534379	162	366	-39%
1913	638	0.000561072	186	452	-42%
1914	722	0.000509763	192	530	-47%
1915	859	0.000468777	248	611	-42%
1916	997	0.000515401	330	667	-34%
1917	1049	0.000522736	337	712	-36%
1918	1240	0.000571136	366	874	-41%
1919	1387	0.00065727	367	1020	-47%
1920	1409	0.000622723	385	1024	-45%
1921	1473	0.000630969	422	1051	-43%
1922	1516	0.000662253	399	1117	-47%
1923	1553	0.00067449	391	1162	-50%
1924	1780	0.000747394	465	1315	-48%
1925	2045	0.00087644	560	1485	-45%
1926	2126	0.000925997	517	1609	-51%
1927	2284	0.000984755	565	1719	-51%
1928	2479	0.001096448	555	1924	-55%
1929	2465	0.001124461	513	1952	-58%
1930	2830	0.00127289	575	2255	-59%
1931	2840	0.001349561	552	2288	-61%
1932	2997	0.001419511	522	2475	-65%
1933	3057	0.001528923	566	2491	-63%
1934	3451	0.001661678	614	2837	-64%
1935	3379	0.001616824	550	2829	-67%
1936	3268	0.001572985	526	2742	-68%
1937	3232	0.001516894	553	2679	-66%
1938	3203	0.001447635	510	2693	-68%
1939	3018	0.001369675	494	2524	-67%
1940	2886	0.001253319	478	2408	-67%
1941	2930	0.001202582	457	2473	-69%
1942	3069	0.001123428	528	2541	-66%
1943	3206	0.001135849	578	2628	-64%
1944	2882	0.001071344	484	2398	-66%
1945	2684	0.001011719	390	2294	-71%
1946	2933	0.000917909	368	2565	-75%
1947	3024	0.000839459	424	2600	-72%
1948	2717	0.000786962	355	2362	-74%
1949	2419	0.000694162	328	2091	-73%
1950	2175	0.000620833	274	1901	-75%
1951	2106	0.000571702	295	1811	-72%
1952	1886	0.000496576	244	1642	-74%
1953	1870	0.000485255	242	1628	-74%
1954	1826	0.000458712	205	1621	-78%
1955	1582	0.000394015	196	1386	-75%
1956	1651	0.000400433	176	1475	-79%
1957	1617	0.000384804	148	1469	-82%
1958	1480	0.000358015	164	1316	-78%
1959	1436	0.000345359	150	1286	-79%
1960	1419	0.000341614	114	1305	-84%
1961	1363	0.000329044	141	1222	-79%
1962	1163	0.000288201	93	1070	-84%
1963	1238	0.000312768	117	1121	-81%
1964	1170	0.000300957	117	1053	-80%
1965	1050	0.000289619	102	948	-81%
1966	1003	0.000288579	79	924	-84%
1967	938	0.000276297	74	864	-84%
1968	920	0.000272317	80	840	-83%
1969	902	0.000259544	76	826	-83%
1970	912	0.000252876	95	817	-79%
1971	840	0.00024473	67	773	-84%
1972	754	0.000239899	86	668	-77%
1973	685	0.000227055	60	625	-82%
1974	626	0.000205921	45	581	-86%
1975	640	0.000211963	63	577	-80%
1976	546	0.000179943	39	507	-86%
1977	538	0.000169369	50	488	-81%
1978	520	0.000163838	36	484	-86%
1979	465	0.000139766	34	431	-85%
1980	523	0.000151836	39	484	-85%
1981	436	0.000126034	36	400	-83%
1982	412	0.000117447	22	390	-89%
1983	412	0.00011896	28	384	-86%
1984	355	0.000101755	25	330	-86%
1985	358	0.000100305	17	341	-91%
1986	349	0.000098114	29	320	-83%
1987	339	0.00009402	21	318	-88%
1988	348	0.00009418	21	327	-88%
1989	332	0.000086358	21	311	-87%
1990	347	0.000087793	15	332	-91%
1991	320	0.000082151	10	310	-94%
1992	275	0.000071591	14	261	-90%
1993	243	0.000064451	15	228	-88%
1994	255	0.000068592	20	235	-84%
1995	207	0.000056524	13	194	-87%
1996	221	0.000060595	15	206	-86%
1997	201	0.000055437	8	193	-92%
1998	176	0.000047849	11	165	-88%
1999	182	0.000049271	6	176	-93%
2000	172	0.000045504	12	160	-86%
2001	164	0.000043811	10	154	-88%
2002	117	0.000031298	6	111	-90%
2003	149	0.000039187	6	143	-92%
2004	137	0.000035855	9	128	-87%
2005	100	0.000026009		100	-100%
2006	135	0.000034124	8	127	-88%
2007	111	0.000027766		111	-100%
2008	112	0.000028494		112	-100%
2009	104	0.000027224		104	-100%
2010	111	0.000030035		111	-100%
2011	90	0.000024605		90	-100%
2012	91	0.000024881		91	-100%
2013	94	0.000025784		94	-100%
2014	85	0.000022933	5	80	-88%
2015	81	0.000021886	9	72	-78%
2016	69	0.000018808		69	-100%
2017	78	0.000021811	6	72	-85%
2018	58	0.000016497	5	53	-83%
2019	58	0.00001671	7	51	-76%
2020	72	0.000021553	6	66	-83%
2021	62	0.0000183	8	54	-74%
2022	39	0.000011528		39	-100%
2023	53	0.000016006	6	47	-77%
2024	34	0.000010215		34	-100%

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