Meaning not yet researched.
Imari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,075 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,075 in 1974; #4,310 in 2025. About 51% of babies named Imari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,310 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #2,075.
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Imari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,075 in 1974 · most boys in one year: 50 (2020).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Imari, making it the 4,310th most common boys’ name of the year, down 385 places from #3,925 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 28 boys named Imari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,075, reached in 1974. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 2020. For comparison, it was #2,540 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Imari, making it the 5,469th most common girls’ name of the year, up 44 places from #5,513 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 23 girls named Imari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,545, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 124, in 2003. For comparison, it was #5,905 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Imari in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 3,451 US babies have been given the name, 69% of them girls and 31% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,280 babies named Imari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 356 US boys were named Imari; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Emeri (2,670 babies since 1880), Emari (2,355 babies since 1880), Emori (1,541 babies since 1880) and Emarie (1,507 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emauri, Emmari and Imaria 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: Emauri (209), Emmari (50), Imaria (26), Ymari (17), Emarri (12), Imiri (6), Imauri (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 Imari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,469 | 24 | #4,310 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,513 | 28 | #3,925 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,264 | 31 | #3,662 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,850 | 43 | #2,934 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,406 | 34 | #3,384 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,207 | 50 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,836 | 40 | #3,014 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,357 | 26 | #4,037 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,430 | 40 | #2,972 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,120 | 40 | #2,949 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,905 | 49 | #2,540 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,865 | 21 | #4,603 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,662 | 10 | #7,734 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,286 | 24 | #4,183 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,154 | 32 | #3,390 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,055 | 37 | #3,102 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,537 | 45 | #2,719 |
| 2008 | 92 | #2,178 | 27 | #3,863 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,404 | 33 | #3,333 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,196 | 17 | #5,169 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,128 | 30 | #3,342 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,888 | 26 | #3,571 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,555 | 37 | #2,696 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,760 | 32 | #2,904 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,548 | 24 | #3,550 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,545 | 26 | #3,242 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,903 | 15 | #4,619 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,546 | 29 | #2,817 |
| 1997 | 96 | #1,645 | 18 | #3,797 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,647 | 10 | #5,706 |
| 1995 | 93 | #1,609 | 19 | #3,482 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,815 | 17 | #3,807 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,859 | 18 | #3,557 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,135 | 16 | #3,820 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,328 | 12 | #4,593 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,311 | 8 | #6,057 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,428 | 7 | #6,494 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,111 | 7 | #6,031 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,358 | 5 | #7,413 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,799 | 7 | #5,569 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,468 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,767 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,344 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,803 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,817 |
| 1974 | — | — | 21 | #2,075 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,846 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,662 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,142 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,137 |
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).