Girls' name · since 2017
Imela
Imela has 20 recorded births since 2017 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2017 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #45,988 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,960 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 20
- born since 2017
- 2010s
- peak decade
Imela currently ranks #12960 among girls' names in America, with 20 babies recorded since 2017.
Imela has 20 recorded births among girls since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12960 as of the latest data, more common than 25% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #45,988 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,960 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 20 born since 2017
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Imela ranks #45,988 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,960 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 20 born since 2017, peaking in the 2010s.
- #45,988 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,960 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 20
- born since 2017
- 2010s
- peak decade
Imela's 20 recorded births place it above 35.98% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Imela compares
20 8th 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
Imela's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Imela | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 20 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Imela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Imela's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 65% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 35%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2019, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2017 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Imela popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2017)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Imela by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (13 births, 65% of the file).
2010s was Imela's strongest decade.
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Imela births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
13 births
- 2020s
2020s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 13 births (65% of all-time use).
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What to do with Imela's data
- Imela's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (13 total births) through the 2020s (7) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 2017–2025 (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 Imela 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.