Imogene

Where Imogene comes from

Imogene hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1828
    Imogene Robinson Morrell born
    American artist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1908
    Imogene Coca born
    American comic actress
  4. 1927
    Peak, #157
    1,494 babies named Imogene — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #253.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Imogene Coca · American comic actress, 1908–2001
  • Imogene Robinson Morrell · American artist, 1828–1908
  • Imogene Lynn · American jazz and pop singer, 1922–2003

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.