Given name & surname
Jimenez
Jimenez is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Tagalog, Cebuano, and Pangasinan.
Original SpanishJiménez
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Cebuano usage, Jimenez as a surname developed from Jiménez.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jimenez through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 356 as a first name in 2020; 225,722 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.
Jimenez’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Jimenez as a surname developed from the Spanish form Jiménez. In English usage, Jimenez as a surname has a related form in JIMINEZ. In English usage, Jimenez as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jiménez.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jimenez has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Jimenez comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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