Imanol
Imanol was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,498 among boys’ names; 1,246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Imanol and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 18 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Imanol by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Imanol?
#8,498 among boys’ names, 2025
Imanol fell from #4,212 in 2015 to #8,498 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 5.3 per million.
188 babies in 2006, the peak
Imanol peaked in 2006, when 188 boys were given it, #988 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,498 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,007 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,058 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,446 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,129 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,294 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,496 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,109 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,066 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 24 | #4,212 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 18 | #5,131 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,254 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,302 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,563 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,402 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 56 | #2,331 | 28.2 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,214 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,491 | 51.6 |
| 2006 | 188 | #988 | 91.5 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,622 | 42.1 |
| 2004 | 60 | #1,997 | 30.2 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,440 | 46.1 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,326 | 51.5 |
| 2001 | 169 | #921 | 87.0 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,064 | 24.9 |
| 1999 | 51 | #1,909 | 26.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,500 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Imanol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Imanol has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Imanol: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Imanol, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,246 Americans ever recorded as Imanol. The median Imanol alive today is 20 years old; half are between 18 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,064 people named Imanol (0 women and girls, 1,064 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 145 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Imanol born?
The states with the most babies named Imanol are California, Texas and Illinois, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 257 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 191 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 82 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 13 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Imanol is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Imanol is most over-represented in Texas: since 1998 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Imanol with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,588 babies since 1880, Imanol is the most given (78% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Imanol
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Imanol and names like it
- Compare Imanol and ImanuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sImanol peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Imanol since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Imanol.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Imanol alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.