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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Imani

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#579

down −53 places

2025 births

512

down −73 births

All-time births

27,817

2% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1998
1,222 births
Best rank
#239
in 1996
First recorded
1970
#5,551 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2006
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
56 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19981,222#253Peak
  2. 19971,185#248
  3. 19961,171#239
  4. 20001,051#304
  5. 20011,047#300

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #239 in 1996 · peak births 1,222 in 1998

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 5% boys■ 95% girls

1,395 boys · 27,817 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Imani has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.