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Imaan

#4,018 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Alternate transcription of Iman

Imaan has been given to 951 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #4,018 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 42 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.

Babies named Imaan, 2025

1 in 92,100

Imaan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Imaan over time

In 2025, Imaan went to 68% girls and 32% boys.

19922025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Imaan: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Iman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Imaan means

Imaan is a alternate transcription of Iman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Imaan → Iman. The family’s meaning is “faith”, recorded in the naming reference for Iman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 814 girls were recorded with the name Imaan between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,666 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,374 in 2020 to #4,018 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,527 in 2015 to #4,018 in 2025.

In the United States, 137 boys were recorded with the name Imaan between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,321 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,200 in 2020 to #5,474 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,056 in 2015 to #5,474 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Imaan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,018
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Imaan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Imaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Imaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Imaan was born before 2012 — so the typical Imaan is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
814
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (296).

Is Imaan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−352
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,356
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+509
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2024 (42)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,666
2024

Spellings of Imaan

Imaan is not the most common spelling — Imani is, with 49.6% against Imaan's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Imaan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Imaan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 260,725 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Imaan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Imaan is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Imaan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Imaan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Imaan around the world

Where Imaan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #396
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • France
    1996–2025
    #3,370
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Imaan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,018
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,356
Best rank ever
#3,666
2024
Peak year
2024
42 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
814
Count in 2025
36

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,474
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,726
Best rank ever
#5,321
2023
Peak year
2023
18 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Imaan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Imaan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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