Meaning not yet researched.
Imogene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #157 in 1927.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #157 in 1927; #2,521 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Imogene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,521 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1927, at #157.
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Imogene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #157 in 1927 · most girls in one year: 1,494 (1927).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Imogene, making it the 2,521st most common girls’ name of the year, down 47 places from #2,474 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 73 girls named Imogene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #157, reached in 1927. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,494. For comparison, it was #4,339 in 2015 and #700 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Imogene in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 12 babies. In all, 27,956 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 11,310 babies named Imogene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 600 US girls were named Imogene; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Imogene ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,204 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Imogen (3,179 babies since 1880) and Emogene (4,871 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Imagene, Imogean and Emagene 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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Imagene (547), Imogean (313), Emagene (206), Imagine (136), Emmogene (107), Imogine (61), Imagen (33), Imogin (5), Immogene (5), Emogine (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 Imogene 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,204 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,294 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,910 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,074 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,433 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,339 | — | — |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,380 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,823 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,446 | — | — |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,615 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,054 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,001 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,892 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,411 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,041 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,547 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,264 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,984 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,964 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,597 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,668 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,335 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,947 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,323 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,858 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,790 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,116 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,490 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,139 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,875 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,635 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,515 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,463 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,401 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,689 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,037 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,345 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,961 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,101 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,288 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,810 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1958 | 70 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1957 | 91 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1955 | 107 | #959 | — | — |
| 1954 | 119 | #879 | — | — |
| 1953 | 113 | #890 | — | — |
| 1952 | 148 | #729 | — | — |
| 1951 | 143 | #731 | — | — |
| 1950 | 151 | #700 | — | — |
| 1949 | 150 | #686 | — | — |
| 1948 | 172 | #633 | — | — |
| 1947 | 206 | #593 | — | — |
| 1946 | 219 | #533 | — | — |
| 1945 | 224 | #483 | — | — |
| 1944 | 234 | #470 | — | — |
| 1943 | 273 | #451 | — | — |
| 1942 | 272 | #443 | — | — |
| 1941 | 340 | #362 | 5 | #3,746 |
| 1940 | 360 | #336 | — | — |
| 1939 | 408 | #308 | — | — |
| 1938 | 447 | #297 | 6 | #3,334 |
| 1937 | 491 | #281 | 7 | #3,036 |
| 1936 | 543 | #261 | 5 | #3,789 |
| 1935 | 614 | #253 | — | — |
| 1934 | 768 | #226 | — | — |
| 1933 | 788 | #215 | 7 | #3,137 |
| 1932 | 941 | #196 | — | — |
| 1931 | 907 | #201 | — | — |
| 1930 | 1,024 | #188 | 10 | #2,684 |
| 1929 | 1,179 | #174 | — | — |
| 1928 | 1,314 | #163 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1,494 | #157 | — | — |
| 1926 | 1,253 | #172 | 6 | #3,937 |
| 1925 | 1,248 | #174 | 9 | #3,024 |
| 1924 | 1,247 | #182 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1,001 | #200 | — | — |
| 1922 | 916 | #213 | — | — |
| 1921 | 839 | #223 | — | — |
| 1920 | 804 | #229 | — | — |
| 1919 | 702 | #241 | — | — |
| 1918 | 590 | #258 | — | — |
| 1917 | 564 | #262 | — | — |
| 1916 | 423 | #290 | — | — |
| 1915 | 444 | #280 | — | — |
| 1914 | 333 | #289 | — | — |
| 1913 | 227 | #317 | — | — |
| 1912 | 172 | #349 | — | — |
| 1911 | 137 | #338 | — | — |
| 1910 | 98 | #398 | — | — |
| 1909 | 107 | #350 | — | — |
| 1908 | 88 | #386 | — | — |
| 1907 | 64 | #449 | — | — |
| 1906 | 53 | #467 | — | — |
| 1905 | 53 | #466 | — | — |
| 1904 | 48 | #476 | — | — |
| 1903 | 54 | #432 | — | — |
| 1902 | 42 | #488 | — | — |
| 1901 | 29 | #581 | — | — |
| 1900 | 59 | #434 | — | — |
| 1899 | 32 | #531 | — | — |
| 1898 | 27 | #627 | — | — |
| 1897 | 40 | #465 | — | — |
| 1896 | 34 | #509 | — | — |
| 1895 | 34 | #505 | — | — |
| 1894 | 25 | #587 | — | — |
| 1893 | 26 | #555 | — | — |
| 1892 | 31 | #490 | — | — |
| 1891 | 23 | #550 | — | — |
| 1890 | 22 | #565 | — | — |
| 1889 | 26 | #490 | — | — |
| 1888 | 22 | #537 | — | — |
| 1887 | 17 | #543 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #677 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #872 | — | — |
| 1883 | 14 | #530 | — | — |
| 1882 | 12 | #547 | — | — |
| 1881 | 14 | #457 | — | — |
| 1880 | 12 | #505 | — | — |
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).