Imari
Imari is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 24 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,468 among girls’ names and #4,309 among boys’, #5,861 among all names counting both); 3,451 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,400 Americans named Imari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Imari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Imari?
#5,468 among girls’ names, 2025
Imari rose from #5,903 in 2015 to #5,468 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 14.3 per million.
161 babies in 2003, the peak
Imari peaked in 2003, when 161 babies were given it (124 girls, #1,554 among girls’ names). The 47 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,468 | 24 | #4,309 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,510 | 28 | #3,923 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,259 | 31 | #3,660 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,847 | 43 | #2,932 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,401 | 34 | #3,381 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,205 | 50 | #2,565 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,832 | 40 | #3,012 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,353 | 26 | #4,033 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,428 | 40 | #2,971 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,119 | 40 | #2,948 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,903 | 49 | #2,539 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,863 | 21 | #4,599 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,660 | 10 | #7,729 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,285 | 24 | #4,180 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,153 | 32 | #3,389 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,054 | 37 | #3,101 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,536 | 45 | #2,718 |
| 2008 | 92 | #2,178 | 27 | #3,860 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,404 | 33 | #3,331 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,196 | 17 | #5,165 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,127 | 30 | #3,338 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,887 | 26 | #3,567 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,554 | 37 | #2,692 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,758 | 32 | #2,900 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,547 | 24 | #3,545 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,543 | 26 | #3,236 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,900 | 15 | #4,613 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,544 | 29 | #2,814 |
| 1997 | 96 | #1,643 | 18 | #3,792 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,645 | 10 | #5,699 |
| 1995 | 93 | #1,605 | 19 | #3,476 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,810 | 17 | #3,801 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,855 | 18 | #3,551 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,130 | 16 | #3,813 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,322 | 12 | #4,586 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,306 | 8 | #6,050 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,422 | 7 | #6,487 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,106 | 7 | #6,025 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,355 | 5 | #7,406 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,798 | 7 | #5,563 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,466 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,763 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,341 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,801 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,815 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 21 | #2,075 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 8 | #3,844 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,660 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,140 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,136 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Imari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,451 Americans recorded as Imari, 69% are girls and 31% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Imari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Imari, and how old are they?
3,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,451 Americans ever recorded as Imari. The median Imari alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,455 people named Imari (1,780 women and girls, 675 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,088 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 59 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 734 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 747 |
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 Imari born?
The states with the most babies named Imari are California, Florida and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 189 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 145 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 142 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 134 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 101 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 77 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 66 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 55 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 38 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Imari 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,288 babies since 1880, Imari is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 113 babies (42%), the second most given that year.
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 Imari
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 Imari and names like it
- Compare Imari and ImaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sImari peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Imari since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Imari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Imari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.