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Imogine

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Celtic languages origin

Imogine has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1929, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Imogine, 1937

1 in 426,000

Imogine over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Imogine: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Celtic languages origin

Celtic languages

What Imogine means

Imogine is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Imogine between 1916 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1929; its best national rank was #3,516 in 1929.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Imogine?

Imogine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1937, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1937
1 in 426,000
5 of 2,130,660 births
Among girls only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1937
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
295,373 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Imogine 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 1937 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 295,373 children born in 1937 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Imogine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Imogines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Imogine was born before 1925 — so the typical Imogine is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
65.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 65.6% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Imogine 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
0%
Peak was 1929 (8)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,516
1929

Spellings of Imogine

Imogine is not the most common spelling — Imogene is, with 76.3% against Imogine's 0.17%.

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.

Imogine around the world

Where Imogine 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
    2005–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Imogine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,516
1929
Peak year
1929
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

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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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