Given name & surname
Pim
“one who is precise”
Pim is used as a given name and a surname. One Dutch interpretation is “one who is precise.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Dutch interpretation is “one who is precise.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Dutch.
How it developed
In Scots usage, Pim is a diminutive of James. In Scots usage, Pim is an affectionate form of James.
Pim’s family of names
In Scots usage, Pim is a diminutive of James. In Dutch usage, Pim has a related form in Willem. In Scots usage, Pim is an affectionate form of James.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Pim
- Pim FortuynDutch politician (1948–2002)
- Pim VerbeekDutch association football player and manager1956–2019
- Pim DoesburgDutch footballer (1943–2020)
- Pim LigthartDutch road cyclistborn 1988
- Pim de la ParraSurinamese-Dutch film director1940–2024
- Pim van LommelDutch cardiologistborn 1943
- Pim MulierDutch sports pioneer, one of the founders of modern sports in the Netherlands (1865–1954)
- Pim RonhaarDutch cyclo-cross and road cyclistborn 2001
- Pim LierDutch lawyer and jurist (1918–2015)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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