How Many People Are Named Jimena?

16,909

people named Jimena are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 20,213 people in the US has this name

Based on 17,042 babies named Jimena in Social Security records from 1966 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,779

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#958

See the top 100

Peak Year

2016

830 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish
Pronunciation: khee-ME-na
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of XIMENA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jimena in English. Counting Jimena and these spellings together, about 56,306 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.1%

All of the babies given the name Jimena in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Jimena alive today is about 13 years old, and 98% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 18 in 2025.

Under 30 16,572
98%
30 to 59 338
2%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Jimena first appears in the records in 1966 and was given most often in 2016, to 830 babies. In 2025, 515 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1966 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Jimena has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #387, in 2005. In 2025 it ranked #578.

Girls
Rank in 2025#578
Best rank#387 (2005)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#433 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Jimena alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jimena were born in California than in any other state: about 4,784 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jimena was given 2.1 times as often in California, 2.1 times in Texas and 2 times in Nevada.

California 4,784
Texas 3,788
Illinois 854
Arizona 615
Florida 585
Georgia 482
North Carolina 446
Washington 377
New York 370
Colorado 366
New Jersey 246
Nevada 229
Virginia 229
Oregon 220
Oklahoma 197
Tennessee 185
Indiana 177
Wisconsin 167
Maryland 153
Utah 150
Michigan 139
Kansas 126
South Carolina 96
Alabama 96
New Mexico 91
Pennsylvania 80
Arkansas 77
Ohio 76
Iowa 65
Minnesota 52
Idaho 51
Massachusetts 49
Nebraska 46
Missouri 38
Louisiana 33
Kentucky 22
Delaware 10

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