Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Jim
/JIM/
Meaning
“Supplanter”
Short form of James, from Late Latin Jacomus, ultimately from Hebrew Ya'akov meaning 'supplanter'; the quintessential American masculine nickname-as-given-name.
Nicknames
james · jimmy
Vibe
playful
How it ages.
Solidly mid-century American - will take generations before it stops reading as 'dad name'.
The cultural moment.
Very common in the US from the 1930s-1960s; now rare for newborns.