Given name & surname
Rimas
“to calm down”
Rimas is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rimas goes back to a word meaning “to calm down.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rimas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 108
- 65 boys · 43 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,760 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,760 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 261 as a first name in 2020; 173 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.
Rimas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Rimas is a diminutive of RIMANTAS. In Lithuanian usage, Rimas is a diminutive of Mantrimas.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rimas
- Rimas KurtinaitisLithuanian basketball player and coachborn 1960
- Rimas TuminasLithuanian director (1952–2024)
- Rimas Álvarez KairelisArgentine rugby union footballerborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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