Meaning not yet researched.
Iman: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 91 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,043 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,043 in 1996; #2,072 in 2025. About 51% of babies named Iman in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,072 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,043.
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Iman: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 91 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,043 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 178 (1996).
In 2025, 91 US girls were named Iman, making it the 2,072nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 14 places from #2,086 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 92 girls named Iman in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,043, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 178. For comparison, it was #1,924 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 89 US boys were named Iman, making it the 1,798th most common boys’ name of the year, up 97 places from #1,895 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 84 boys named Iman in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,798, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #3,816 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iman in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 11 babies. In all, 6,609 US babies have been given the name, 78% of them girls and 22% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,787 babies named Iman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 965 US girls were named Iman; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,662 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Iman ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #980 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eman (2,573 babies since 1880) and Emaan (1,483 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Imaan, Emon and Emin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Imaan (951), Emon (707), Emin (612), Imane (276), Eiman (104), Imon (83), Eimaan (36), Emman (10), Eeman (6), Emane (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Iman in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 7 | #980 | #697 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,056 | #878 |
| New York | 10 | #1,362 | #1,096 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,484 | #1,502 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,740 | #3,028 |
| California | 9 | #2,170 | #1,972 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,072 | 89 | #1,798 |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,086 | 84 | #1,895 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,278 | 61 | #2,298 |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,859 | 81 | #1,925 |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,219 | 82 | #1,876 |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,864 | 50 | #2,565 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,868 | 66 | #2,156 |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,196 | 73 | #2,003 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,922 | 40 | #2,971 |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,902 | 28 | #3,819 |
| 2015 | 105 | #1,924 | 28 | #3,816 |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,823 | 21 | #4,602 |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,025 | 27 | #3,794 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,988 | 19 | #4,926 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,749 | 13 | #6,373 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,878 | 21 | #4,581 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,551 | 13 | #6,568 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,441 | 28 | #3,773 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,817 | 18 | #5,084 |
| 2006 | 156 | #1,443 | 19 | #4,754 |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,514 | 18 | #4,705 |
| 2004 | 173 | #1,253 | 19 | #4,483 |
| 2003 | 169 | #1,246 | 31 | #3,065 |
| 2002 | 157 | #1,259 | 29 | #3,137 |
| 2001 | 162 | #1,239 | 22 | #3,770 |
| 2000 | 174 | #1,158 | 35 | #2,643 |
| 1999 | 148 | #1,255 | 36 | #2,489 |
| 1998 | 148 | #1,230 | 24 | #3,229 |
| 1997 | 155 | #1,182 | 26 | #2,930 |
| 1996 | 178 | #1,043 | 31 | #2,503 |
| 1995 | 144 | #1,194 | 25 | #2,877 |
| 1994 | 126 | #1,339 | 26 | #2,802 |
| 1993 | 161 | #1,117 | 17 | #3,724 |
| 1992 | 162 | #1,106 | 22 | #3,047 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,842 | 20 | #3,161 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,580 | 14 | #4,061 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,858 | 12 | #4,380 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,919 | 9 | #4,953 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,886 | 12 | #3,828 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,870 | 13 | #3,526 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,028 | 14 | #3,285 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,487 | 9 | #4,347 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,032 | 8 | #4,664 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,604 | 10 | #4,065 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,458 | 22 | #2,290 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,619 | 25 | #2,136 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,480 | 19 | #2,501 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,223 | 18 | #2,517 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,952 | 8 | #4,346 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,581 | 10 | #3,582 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,733 | 5 | #5,816 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,724 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,308 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,047 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).