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English
Proper noun
Jimi
- A rare spelling variant of Jimmy, diminutive of the male given name James.
1971, Philip Roth, Our Gang (starring Tricky and his Friends), →ISBN, page 79:LEGAL COACH: Jimi Hendrix, Mr. President - the first name is spelled Jimi, not Jimmy, as you've written it here.
TRICKY: Well, let's correct it, then, because that is just the sort of error, inadvertently made, that tends to be totally misconstrued by the press. Now I never claimed to know how to spell the names of every colored person in this country, but I will tell you this much: where someone's name is concerned, colored or not, he has the constitutional right to have it spelled correctly
Finnish
Etymology
From English Jim and Jimmy.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Jimi
- a male given name of modern usage
Declension
Statistics
- Jimi is the 135th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,598 male individuals (and as a middle name to 567 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.