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Baby name
Jim
Boy
Origin of the name
Jim is a short form of James.
Classic name
153,122births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 70rank at its peak, in 1959
Where babies named Jim are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Jim is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Jim is most common in Wyoming (3.3 times), Montana (3.1) and Nebraska (2.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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