Iman
#2,064 for girls in 2025, 91 births · #1,793 for boys in 2025, 89 births
Given to girls 77.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 178 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,124since 1975
Iman over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,064 | 91 | #1,793 | 89 |
| 2024 | #2,080 | 92 | #1,891 | 84 |
| 2023 | #2,269 | 81 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #1,856 | 109 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #2,212 | 84 | #1,870 | 82 |
| 2020 | #1,860 | 104 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2019 | #1,864 | 108 | #2,150 | 66 |
| 2018 | #2,190 | 85 | #1,994 | 73 |
| 2017 | #1,917 | 105 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #1,897 | 106 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 2015 | #1,919 | 105 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #1,818 | 112 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #2,020 | 96 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | #1,983 | 98 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #1,748 | 117 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #1,873 | 108 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #1,546 | 146 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #1,437 | 164 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #1,815 | 117 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #1,440 | 156 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #1,513 | 137 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #1,252 | 173 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #1,242 | 169 | #3,044 | 31 |
| 2002 | #1,258 | 157 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #1,238 | 162 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #1,158 | 174 | #2,621 | 35 |
| 1999 | #1,255 | 148 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #1,228 | 148 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #1,181 | 155 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #1,042 | 178 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #1,187 | 144 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #1,337 | 126 | #2,766 | 26 |
| 1993 | #1,113 | 161 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #1,105 | 162 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #1,832 | 77 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #1,578 | 96 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #1,911 | 64 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #1,880 | 61 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #2,021 | 53 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #2,470 | 38 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #2,022 | 50 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #2,581 | 36 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #2,447 | 39 | #2,270 | 22 |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 | #2,110 | 25 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | #2,674 | 14 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Iman! It came in at #6,484, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Iman
- 16 spots since 2024 (#2,080 → #2,064)
- 204 spots since 2020 (#1,860 → #2,064)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#1,919 → #2,064)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1996 at #1,042 (178 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,848 girls born in 1996 were named Iman (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,662 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.3% of all girls named Iman (1,555) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1974, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 92 | #3,196 (1978) | #4,115 |
| 1980s | 481 | #1,851 (1989) | #2,263 |
| 1990s | 1,395 | #1,042 (1996) | #1,286 |
| 2000s | 1,555 | #1,158 (2000) | #1,390 |
| 2010s | 1,040 | #1,748 (2011) | #1,923 |
| 2020s | 561 | #1,856 (2022) | #2,057 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Iman in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 12,212 of them was named Iman, which outranked 92.5% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,183Desire145
- #1,183Doris145
- #1,183Micayla145
- #1,187Iman144
- #1,187Allegra144
- #1,187Amalia144
- #1,187Anais144
- #1,197Alexander143
- #1,197Alize143
- #1,197Alyse143
Tied with 9 names at #1,187; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 76,148 of them was named Iman, which outranked 72.4% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,762Yair26
- #2,762Yeng26
- #2,762Yuri26
- #2,847Iman25
- #2,847Aj25
- #2,847Akram25
- #2,847Alen25
- #2,923Abimael24
- #2,923Anselmo24
- #2,923Antwaun24
Tied with 75 names at #2,847; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.