Ima — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ima

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,799 babies named Ima between 1886 and 2020, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ima currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 232 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ima performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,939 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ima shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,697 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Ima in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ima in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,799 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.