Imani
#579 for girls in 2025, 512 births · #2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
Given to girls 95.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 1,171 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 27,817since 1970
Imani over time
Rank among girls' names. Imani has never cracked the top 200 here.
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 | #579 | 512 | #2,991 | 41 |
| 2024 | #526 | 585 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #476 | 647 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2022 | #504 | 627 | #2,753 | 47 |
| 2021 | #530 | 583 | #2,349 | 58 |
| 2020 | #522 | 580 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #521 | 597 | #2,993 | 40 |
| 2018 | #515 | 607 | #4,354 | 23 |
| 2017 | #541 | 573 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #541 | 577 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #533 | 585 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #499 | 626 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #482 | 630 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #387 | 807 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #392 | 809 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #372 | 861 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2009 | #411 | 774 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #384 | 841 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #388 | 845 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #405 | 785 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #412 | 757 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #387 | 801 | #2,569 | 42 |
| 2003 | #328 | 954 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #318 | 968 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #300 | 1,047 | #2,988 | 30 |
| 2000 | #303 | 1,051 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #299 | 1,035 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #253 | 1,222 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #248 | 1,185 | #1,814 | 52 |
| 1996 | #239 | 1,171 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #266 | 1,034 | #1,955 | 43 |
| 1994 | #303 | 905 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | #467 | 541 | #1,824 | 46 |
| 1992 | #551 | 427 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #723 | 288 | #2,683 | 25 |
| 1990 | #935 | 203 | #2,628 | 25 |
| 1989 | #1,244 | 127 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #1,686 | 76 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #2,170 | 48 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #2,657 | 36 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #2,414 | 40 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #2,563 | 36 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #2,666 | 31 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #2,932 | 25 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #2,396 | 32 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Imani! It came in at #5,413, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Imani is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#205 · 1 in 829
- District of Columbia#206 · 1 in 554
- Maryland#279 · 1 in 1,106
- Georgia#288 · 1 in 1,192
- North Carolina#289 · 1 in 1,218
Best ever in a state: #10 in District of Columbia, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #205 | 23 | 1 in 829 |
| District of Columbia | #206 | 5 | 1 in 554 |
| Maryland | #279 | 20 | 1 in 1,106 |
| Georgia | #288 | 38 | 1 in 1,192 |
| North Carolina | #289 | 37 | 1 in 1,218 |
| Louisiana | #321 | 16 | 1 in 1,163 |
| Mississippi | #365 | 8 | 1 in 1,226 |
| Florida | #391 | 48 | 1 in 1,742 |
| Wisconsin | #398 | 13 | 1 in 1,652 |
| New Jersey | #436 | 19 | 1 in 1,917 |
| Nevada | #441 | 6 | 1 in 1,625 |
| Tennessee | #470 | 16 | 1 in 1,951 |
| Oregon | #489 | 7 | 1 in 1,963 |
| Washington | #489 | 14 | 1 in 2,108 |
| Virginia | #505 | 16 | 1 in 2,161 |
| Arizona | #511 | 13 | 1 in 2,133 |
| Texas | #511 | 64 | 1 in 2,429 |
| Illinois | #514 | 21 | 1 in 2,305 |
| Colorado | #519 | 10 | 1 in 2,213 |
| Michigan | #526 | 16 | 1 in 2,396 |
| Connecticut | #547 | 5 | 1 in 2,404 |
| Missouri | #571 | 10 | 1 in 2,473 |
| Arkansas | #577 | 5 | 1 in 2,176 |
| Iowa | #579 | 5 | 1 in 2,338 |
| South Carolina | #609 | 7 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Ohio | #626 | 16 | 1 in 3,038 |
| New York | #633 | 26 | 1 in 3,125 |
| Kentucky | #728 | 5 | 1 in 3,404 |
| Minnesota | #761 | 6 | 1 in 3,713 |
| Indiana | #839 | 7 | 1 in 4,055 |
| Massachusetts | #853 | 5 | 1 in 4,971 |
| California | #900 | 34 | 1 in 5,133 |
| Pennsylvania | #950 | 9 | 1 in 5,420 |
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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 Imani
- 53 spots since 2024 (#526 → #579)
- 57 spots since 2020 (#522 → #579)
- 46 spots since 2015 (#533 → #579)
- Biggest jump: 309 spots in 1990 (#1,244 → #935)
- Biggest drop: 95 spots in 2013 (#387 → #482)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1996 at #239 (1,171 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,446 girls born in 1998 were named Imani (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,139 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #239 in 1996, was only 1 in 1,497 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.7% of all girls named Imani (8,823) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 255 | #2,396 (1974) | #3,095 |
| 1980s | 522 | #1,244 (1989) | #2,256 |
| 1990s | 8,011 | #239 (1996) | #428 |
| 2000s | 8,823 | #300 (2001) | #364 |
| 2010s | 6,672 | #372 (2010) | #478 |
| 2020s | 3,534 | #476 (2023) | #523 |
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.
Imani in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,815 of them was named Imani, which outranked 97.0% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 30,163 of them was named Imani, which outranked 83.3% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,321Shlok59
- #2,321Witten59
- #2,321Zuriel59
- #2,349Imani58
- #2,349Abdullahi58
- #2,349Branden58
- #2,349Devan58
- #2,373Adryan57
- #2,373Ahad57
- #2,373Arion57
Tied with 23 names at #2,349; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.