Imar
#11,178 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Imar has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #11,178 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.
Babies named Imar, 2025
1 in 553,000
Imar over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Imar over time
In 2025, Imar went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Imar?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,178
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Imar sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Imar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Imars were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Imar was born before 2021 — so the typical Imar is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 33
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Imar 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 1991 (6)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Imar
Imar is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 53.4% against Imar's <0.01%.
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.
Imar by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Imar
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Imar
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.