Jim is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jim is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Jim. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jim is #2,424 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 140,525 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jim. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Jim is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Jim for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Therefore, Jim is one of the 442 boys' names, that have been given to newborn sons every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Jim is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: Placed at #43 Jim has never been more popular than back in 1882.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jim was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Jim is one of them. However, Jim is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Wyoming seem to particularly fancy this name – the 646 men called Jim who live here are 0,267% of all male residents and push their name up to #90 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Wyoming. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 140,525 people with the name Jim. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Jim on position 221 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With only three letters, the name Jim is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jim and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jim, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jim
Jim
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jim sounds like this:
