as a First Name
(Italian) pet form of Maria, originally a nursery name. The heroine of Puccini's opera La Bohème (1896) announces ‘They call me Mimi’, and since that time the name has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world.
| 1,453rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,917
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Mimi per capita
- 1962
- marked the height of its popularity
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47%
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12%
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11%
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