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The name Jimmy is a diminutive form of James. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jimmy has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jimmy**
Use of the Name Jimmy for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
276,314	141,152	39,295	11,828	5,701	2,246	1,123

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jimmy has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Jimmy first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1883, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jimmy**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1883	765	7
1884	817	7
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890	619	11
1891	539	12
1892	771	9
1893	734	9
1894	528	15
1895	589	13
1896	570	14
1897	705	10
1898	515	17
1899	531	14
1900	328	43
1901	458	18
1902	515	18
1903	387	26
1904	398	28
1905	441	25
1906	318	43
1907	429	29
1908	417	33
1909	378	40
1910	360	51
1911	433	45
1912	433	81
1913	446	93
1914	477	103
1915	477	135
1916	430	174
1917	426	178
1918	415	200
1919	373	240
1920	321	327
1921	297	362
1922	290	380
1923	268	438
1924	250	533
1925	198	711
1926	166	882
1927	158	995
1928	138	1,234
1929	117	1,474
1930	102	1,799
1931	89	2,122
1932	75	2,468	976	53
1933	65	2,926
1934	56	3,693
1935	47	4,166
1936	46	4,212
1937	45	4,509
1938	45	4,730
1939	43	4,750
1940	44	4,994
1941	45	5,321
1942	47	5,948
1943	42	6,412
1944	40	6,324
1945	41	6,128
1946	42	7,134
1947	44	7,810
1948	50	6,906
1949	53	6,382
1950	55	5,758
1951	62	5,658
1952	72	5,296
1953	72	5,303
1954	74	5,336
1955	78	5,008
1956	78	5,335
1957	77	5,659
1958	73	5,599
1959	69	5,831
1960	69	5,813
1961	71	5,730
1962	75	5,512
1963	78	5,045
1964	78	4,913
1965	81	4,519
1966	76	4,235
1967	74	4,027
1968	77	3,806
1969	79	3,761
1970	86	3,652
1971	93	3,307
1972	97	2,929
1973	95	2,730
1974	99	2,561
1975	110	2,358
1976	101	2,500
1977	98	2,633
1978	118	2,164
1979	123	2,230
1980	125	2,203
1981	129	2,091
1982	132	2,087
1983	126	2,081
1984	134	2,069
1985	149	1,865
1986	150	1,818
1987	155	1,806
1988	161	1,727
1989	174	1,745
1990	171	1,788
1991	185	1,727
1992	200	1,557
1993	199	1,531
1994	210	1,372
1995	218	1,356
1996	223	1,360
1997	244	1,229
1998	265	1,088
1999	272	1,094
2000	272	1,185
2001	277	1,102
2002	267	1,168
2003	276	1,123
2004	280	1,123
Totals:		276,314		53

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jimmy as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Jimmy appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 117 times during the last 125 years.

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