Meaning not yet researched.
Imani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 512 in 2025. Its best rank was #239 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #239 in 1996; #579 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Imani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#579 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #239.
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Imani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 512 girls in 2025. Peak: #239 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 1,222 (1998).
In 2025, 512 US girls were named Imani, making it the 579th most common girls’ name of the year, down 53 places from #526 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 585 girls named Imani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #239, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,222, in 1998. For comparison, it was #533 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Imani in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 9 babies. In all, 29,212 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 4.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 9,113 babies named Imani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,888 US girls were named Imani; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 647. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,139 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Imani ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #173 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emani (6,783 babies since 1880) and Emoni (3,119 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Imoni, Ymani and Emanie 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Imoni (576), Ymani (264), Emanie (187), Imanie (174), Emmani (146), Emanii (140), Imanii (131), Imanni (104), Imonie (95), Emahni (50), Imanee (47), Imahni (38), and more.
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 Imani 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 15 | #173 | #446 |
| Georgia | 36 | #285 | #243 |
| Nevada | 9 | #307 | #385 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #313 | #357 |
| Maryland | 15 | #366 | #432 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #387 | #327 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #400 | #536 |
| Florida | 45 | #419 | #433 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #446 | #329 |
| Texas | 71 | #467 | #683 |
| Kansas | 7 | #469 | #670 |
| Alabama | 10 | #500 | #430 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #512 | #817 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #537 | #776 |
| Missouri | 10 | #572 | #641 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #579 | #451 |
| Arizona | 11 | #601 | #396 |
| Michigan | 13 | #611 | #744 |
| Virginia | 12 | #625 | #564 |
| Illinois | 15 | #638 | #348 |
| New York | 26 | #641 | #489 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #666 | #405 |
| Indiana | 9 | #684 | #640 |
| California | 42 | #741 | #928 |
| Ohio | 12 | #763 | #582 |
| Washington | 6 | #973 | #729 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,246 | #441 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 512 | #579 | 41 | #3,014 |
| 2024 | 585 | #526 | 46 | #2,805 |
| 2023 | 647 | #476 | 54 | #2,493 |
| 2022 | 627 | #504 | 47 | #2,769 |
| 2021 | 583 | #530 | 58 | #2,357 |
| 2020 | 580 | #522 | 32 | #3,448 |
| 2019 | 597 | #521 | 40 | #3,013 |
| 2018 | 607 | #516 | 23 | #4,411 |
| 2017 | 573 | #541 | 35 | #3,270 |
| 2016 | 577 | #541 | 25 | #4,140 |
| 2015 | 585 | #533 | 19 | #4,948 |
| 2014 | 626 | #500 | 20 | #4,760 |
| 2013 | 630 | #482 | 24 | #4,111 |
| 2012 | 807 | #387 | 26 | #3,940 |
| 2011 | 809 | #392 | 32 | #3,389 |
| 2010 | 861 | #372 | 26 | #3,932 |
| 2009 | 774 | #411 | 21 | #4,644 |
| 2008 | 841 | #384 | 31 | #3,518 |
| 2007 | 845 | #388 | 17 | #5,288 |
| 2006 | 785 | #405 | 19 | #4,755 |
| 2005 | 757 | #412 | 23 | #3,980 |
| 2004 | 801 | #388 | 42 | #2,582 |
| 2003 | 954 | #328 | 27 | #3,394 |
| 2002 | 968 | #318 | 39 | #2,525 |
| 2001 | 1,047 | #300 | 30 | #3,017 |
| 2000 | 1,051 | #304 | 41 | #2,350 |
| 1999 | 1,035 | #299 | 43 | #2,182 |
| 1998 | 1,222 | #253 | 50 | #1,943 |
| 1997 | 1,185 | #248 | 52 | #1,822 |
| 1996 | 1,171 | #239 | 52 | #1,769 |
| 1995 | 1,034 | #266 | 43 | #1,966 |
| 1994 | 905 | #303 | 43 | #1,943 |
| 1993 | 541 | #468 | 46 | #1,834 |
| 1992 | 427 | #552 | 22 | #3,048 |
| 1991 | 288 | #723 | 25 | #2,708 |
| 1990 | 203 | #936 | 25 | #2,654 |
| 1989 | 127 | #1,245 | 9 | #5,340 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,693 | 8 | #5,405 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,248 | 5 | #7,412 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,178 | 6 | #6,247 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,803 | 9 | #4,348 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,284 | 9 | #4,287 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,420 | 13 | #3,377 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,579 | 12 | #3,492 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,550 | 10 | #3,960 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,749 | 16 | #2,826 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,446 | 13 | #3,127 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,687 | 9 | #3,964 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,955 | 7 | #4,617 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,904 | 8 | #4,095 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,528 | 13 | #2,775 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,102 | 9 | #3,460 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,014 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,551 | — | — |
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).