Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dim through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 168
- 0 boys · 168 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,241 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −56%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,241 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 687 as a first name in 2020; 962 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dim’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Dim as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form RAUH. In Bashkir usage, Dim is a transliteration of Дим.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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