Girls' name · since 1994
Imana
Imana has 56 recorded births since 1994 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #33,669 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,581 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 56
- born since 1994
- 2020s
- peak decade
56 babies have been named Imana since 1994, making it today's #8581 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Imana has been recorded 56 times among girls since 1994, currently ranked #8581 nationally and more common than 50% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1994 to 2025.
- #33,669 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,581 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 56 born since 1994
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Imana ranks #33,669 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,581 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 56 born since 1994, peaking in the 2020s.
- #33,669 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,581 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 56
- born since 1994
- 2020s
- peak decade
Imana's 56 recorded births place it above 53.28% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Imana compares
56 17th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Imana's all-time total is 85% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Imana | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 56 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Imana's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Imana's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2018, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 12, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Imana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Imana by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (24 births, 43% of the file).
2020s was Imana's strongest decade.
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Imana births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
14 births
- 2010s
2010s
18 births
- 2020s
2020s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 24 births (43% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Imana: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1994–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Imana draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.