Imena — unisex name
21 babies named Imena in U.S. Social Security records since 2006, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Imena was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Imena in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Imena
The Social Security Administration has registered 21 babies named Imena between 2006 and 2022, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Imena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Imena is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2022.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Imena performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Imena shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Imena 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 21 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.
Imena at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Imena popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2006
- Peak year (2022)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
21 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 6 births in a single year.
Imena popularity over time — boys
10 total births recorded since 2022 (Imena as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Imena accounts for 32% of total recorded use across both genders.
Imena by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 10 births that decade — 48% of Imena's all-time total
Imena decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Imena's strongest decade
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2006–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.