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Mima

Recorded 1880–2022 · United States

Mima was most popular in 1935, when 25 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,680 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 737 people named Mima.

Most popular in1935
Rank that year#2,680
Births that year25
Total since 1880737
Given to100% girls
Alive today~141
Median age69

Mima over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Mima’s peak in 1935. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Mima?

The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Mima is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 77 of the 146 years since.

How many people are named Mima?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 737 American births named Mima between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 141 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Mima in 2025?

Mima was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Mima getting more or less popular?

Mima is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Mima a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Mima is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 737 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Mima?

Roughly 141 Americans named Mima are alive today — 19% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 69 years old, and half are between 31 and 85. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org