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.
Where Iman is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Connecticut#462 · 1 in 3,107
- Georgia#491 · 1 in 3,181
- New Jersey#652 · 1 in 4,609
- Minnesota#666 · 1 in 5,054
- Massachusetts#747 · 1 in 6,381
Best ever in a state: #240 in District of Columbia, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #462 | 5 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Georgia | #491 | 14 | 1 in 3,181 |
| New Jersey | #652 | 9 | 1 in 4,609 |
| Minnesota | #666 | 5 | 1 in 5,054 |
| Massachusetts | #747 | 5 | 1 in 6,381 |
| Michigan | #804 | 8 | 1 in 6,440 |
| Ohio | #850 | 8 | 1 in 7,703 |
| Virginia | #855 | 5 | 1 in 6,782 |
| New York | #1,124 | 11 | 1 in 9,156 |
| Texas | #1,190 | 14 | 1 in 10,246 |
| Florida | #1,214 | 7 | 1 in 10,611 |
| California | #1,475 | 15 | 1 in 14,734 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 11,939 of them was named Iman, which outranked 92.6% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,219Siera150
- #1,226Janell149
- #1,226Marlen149
- #1,228Iman148
- #1,228Brandie148
- #1,228Dajah148
- #1,228Marjorie148
- #1,236Angeline147
- #1,236Corrina147
- #1,236Danika147
Tied with 7 names at #1,228; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 79,640 of them was named Iman, which outranked 71.8% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,092Yael25
- #3,092Zackory25
- #3,092Zebadiah25
- #3,191Iman24
- #3,191Abisai24
- #3,191Ahsan24
- #3,191Alonte24
- #3,296Aaryn23
- #3,296Adair23
- #3,296Amiri23
Tied with 104 names at #3,191; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.