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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 11,445 of them was named Iman, which outranked 93.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,252Kai158
- #1,252Madilynn158
- #1,252Yajaira158
- #1,258Iman157
- #1,258Ashante157
- #1,258Kayleen157
- #1,258Mari157
- #1,264Grayson156
- #1,264Ivana156
- #1,264Jaci156
Tied with 5 names at #1,258; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 66,949 of them was named Iman, which outranked 75.2% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,022Zeb30
- #3,022Zeus30
- #3,022Zyan30
- #3,095Iman29
- #3,095Aaryan29
- #3,095Ahmari29
- #3,095Akram29
- #3,188Abdoulaye28
- #3,188Adrain28
- #3,188Alexandar28
Tied with 92 names at #3,095; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.