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Jimi vs Jimmylee

American parents have registered 1,908 Jimis since 1880, against 79 Jimmylees. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jimi against Jimmylee, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jimi Jimmylee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jimi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1944 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Jimi had 31 and Jimmylee had 19.

Side by side

  Jimi Jimmylee
Total US births 1,90879
Most in one year 6619
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,80080
Median age today 4140
Peak year 19711984
Best rank 1,214th boys2,529th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19441983
Girls / boys 667 / 1,2410 / 79

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jimi and Jimmylee.