Iman

Where Iman comes from

See iman.
— Wiktionary's entry for Iman
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #6,484 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1996
    Peak, #1,042
    178 babies named Iman — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,190.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.