Mimi

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mimi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mimi: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #696 in 2006, and it stood at #1,230 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#696highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1364
1997	#2152
1998	#1211
1999	#985
2000	#1033
2001	#796
2002	#785
2003	#699
2004	#736
2005	#718
2006	#696
2007	#919
2008	#916
2009	#932
2010	#1013
2011	#1196
2012	#934
2013	#1253
2014	#1234
2015	#1240
2016	#1571
2017	#1330
2018	#1035
2019	#996
2020	#1267
2021	#918
2022	#1326
2023	#1169
2024	#1230

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1169 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1364 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #696 among girls in England and Wales, in 2006 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1230 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Mimi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 843 births with the name.

Mimi across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mimi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1364 (1996)	#696 (2006)	#1230 (2024)	29 of 29	843 (1996–2024)	45 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#705 (2007)	#705 (2007)	#856 (2023)	3 of 17	11 (2007–2023)	4 (2007)

Mimi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mimi in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	57	4 of 10	14
2000sbusiest	350	10 of 10	35
2010s	294	10 of 10	29
2020s	142	5 of 10	28

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mimi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #696 in England and Wales in 2006.

Mimi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1230	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1169	28	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#918	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1267	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#996	35	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1035	34	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1330	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1571	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1240	27	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1253	27	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#934	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#916	35	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#919	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#696	45	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#718	42	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#736	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#699	40	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#785	32	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#796	30	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1033	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#985	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #696, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 45 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 11 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hajra · #695, 29y
Amr · #698, 29y
Fareed · #698, 27y
Neel · #698, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Moshe · #696, 29y
Anushka · #695, 29y
Hajra · #695, 29y
Jaimee · #695, 22y

Mimi was ranked #696 in England and Wales · Girls in 2006. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mimi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mimi without appearing here.

Mimi moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1267 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #918 and #2499.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1169 and #2689.
Carmel Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1196 and #1196 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #934 and #2095.
Anita Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1169 and #2063.

Moved ahead of Mimi

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #996 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1267 and #460.
Alma Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1013 and #1040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1196 and #702.
Amalie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #918 and #1102 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1326 and #940.
Frida Compare
In 2012 they stood at #934 and #1210 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1253 and #925.

Moved the opposite way to Mimi

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mimi went from #796 to #1230 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mimi went from #736 to #1230 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

Moved the same way as Mimi

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mimi went from #2152 to #1230 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mimi went from #2152 to #1230 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mimi went from #785 to #1230 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #696 in England and Wales in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Mimi across 2 official records

Mimi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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