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Imogen

#1,117 in 2025Girls' name

Girl, maiden

Imogen has been given to 3,179 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #1,117 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Imogen, 2025

1 in 15,700

Imogen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Imogen: meaning, origin, and history

Girl, maiden

Celtic languages

What Imogen means

Imogen means “girl, maiden”, associated with inghean.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

First used by William Shakespeare in Cymbeline, a misprint for Innogen, from Scottish Gaelic inghean (“girl, maiden”)

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Imogen (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Imogen is used in English. Its origins include Celtic languages.

Imogen comes through Scottish Gaelic inghean.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Imogen is pronounced /ˈɪməd͡ʒɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,179 girls were recorded with the name Imogen between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 216 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,117 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,238 in 2020 to #1,117 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,555 in 2015 to #1,117 in 2025.

How common is Imogen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,700
211 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,620
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,117
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,892 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Imogen 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,892 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Imogen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Imogens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Imogen was born before 2017 — so the typical Imogen is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,140
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (1,429).

Is Imogen 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
+4
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+121
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+438
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.7%
Peak was 2024 (216)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,117
2025

Spellings of Imogen

Imogen is not the most common spelling — Imogene is, with 65.8% against Imogen's 7.5%.

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 Imogen is used

Across 2016–2025, Imogen was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 9,398 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

227 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 3,704
  2. 2Washington1 in 3,704
  3. 3Colorado1 in 4,762
  4. 4Virginia1 in 4,762
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 5,556
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 6,250
  7. 7New York1 in 6,250
  8. 8Illinois1 in 6,667

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.

Imogen around the world

Where Imogen 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
    #69
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #86
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2025
    #259
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1979–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #870
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2013
    #26
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2001–2024
    #86
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Imogen

People whose public names include Imogen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Imogen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Imogen. Linked forms have their own page here.

ImogeneInnogen

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Imogen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 121
Best rank ever
#1,117
2025
Peak year
2024
216 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,179
Count in 2025
211

Names similar to Imogen

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

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Names with a curve like Imogen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Imogen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Imogen

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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