Jimmy was originally a diminutive of James, which is a variant of Jacob. These names go back to the Hebrew Ya’aqov, meaning ‘may God protect’ or ‘supplanter’.
Jimmy is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Jimmy isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jimmy ranks 568. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Jimmy. In the entire USA, approximately 284,560 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jimmy. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
#40 - this is the highest position Jimmy has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Jimmy reached this top position was in the last century, in 1945, when 6,194 newborn boys were named Jimmy. But as our statistics show, Jimmy has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1887, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Jimmy is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn sons.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jimmy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 324 newborns were given the name Jimmy, making them rank #719. Although the name Jimmy was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their sons. So the chances of an encounter with a young Jimmy are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Jimmy is one of them. However, Jimmy is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Arkansas seem to particularly fancy this name – the 13,422 men called Jimmy who live here are 0,769% of all male residents and push their name up to #19 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Arkansas. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 284,560 people with the name Jimmy. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Jimmy on position 119 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 five letters, the name Jimmy is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Jimmy 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 Jimmy, 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.
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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. Jimmy sounds like this:
