Given name & surname
Slim
“a slender man”
Slim is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a slender man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a slender man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Slim through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 7 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 7 in 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 378 as a first name in 2020; 959 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.
Slim’s family of names
Slim has a related form in Slym. In Greek usage, Slim as a surname is a transliteration of Σλιμ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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.
People named Slim
- Slim HarpoAmerican blues musician (1924-1970)
- Slim PickensAmerican rodeo performer, film and television actor (1919–1983)
- Slim WhitmanAmerican country music singer-songwriter and guitarist1923–2013
- Slim BurnaNigerian singer and record producerborn 1988
- Slim SummervilleAmerican actor and director (1892-1946)
- Slim GaillardAmerican musician (1916–1991)1911–1991
- Slim MahfoudhTunisian actor1942–2017
- Slim BouazizTunisian chess playerborn 1950
- Slim BelkhodjaFrench-Tunisian chess playerborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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