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Jimin

Gender
Boy
Say it
JEE-min
Origin
Korean
US rank, 2025
#10,690 for boys

Jimin is a boys' name of Korean origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

Where does Jimin come from?

Korean: meaning depends on the hanja chosen for ji and min

Is Jimin a girl's or a boy's name?

Jimin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jimin in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Jimin, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the boys named Jimin in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 11 in 20202025
Jimin in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
20248#8,982
20238#8,916
202210#7,762
20216#10,794
202011#7,029
20197#9,750
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20107#9,686
20090–
20087#9,864
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20037#8,636
20025#10,660
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19905#8,108

Names like Jimin

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Jimin

More Korean names

Every Korean name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jimin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jimin, updated 20 October 2026.