Jimmie

Where Jimmie comes from

The dictionaries list Jimmie as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name James — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #350 among boys — 24 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1898
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1934
    Peak, #68
    2,837 babies named Jimmie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #192.
  5. 1975
    Jimmie Johnson born
    American racing driver
  6. 1979
    Jimmie Åkesson born
    Swedish politician
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name James.
Namesakes
  • Jimmie Johnson · American racing driver, born 1975
  • Jimmie Åkesson · Swedish politician, born 1979
  • Jimmie Wilson · American singer, born 1981
  • Jimmie Vaughan · American blues rock guitarist and singer, born 1951
  • Jimmie Walker · American actor, born 1947

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.