Imogen
Imogen was given to 211 girls in 2025, #1,117 among girls’ names; 3,179 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,120 Americans named Imogen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Imogen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Imogen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Imogen is “a female given name from the Celtic languages.” Its etymology gives the sense “girl, maiden” (inghean).
First used by William Shakespeare in Cymbeline, a misprint for Innogen, from Scottish Gaelic inghean (“girl, maiden”)
/ˈɪməd͡ʒɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Imogen?
#1,117 among girls’ names, 2025
Imogen rose from #1,555 in 2015 to #1,117 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.13 per 1,000.
216 babies in 2024, the peak
Imogen peaked in 2024, when 216 girls were given it, #1,121 among girls’ names. The 211 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 211 | #1,117 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 216 | #1,121 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 196 | #1,213 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 184 | #1,288 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 167 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,238 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,397 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 170 | #1,333 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 171 | #1,356 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 173 | #1,365 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,555 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 160 | #1,423 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,637 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 113 | #1,805 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,864 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,981 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,454 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,471 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,835 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,827 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,830 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,844 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,252 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,292 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,267 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,044 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,789 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,568 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,153 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,386 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,905 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,563 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,412 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,537 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,767 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,495 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,259 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Imogen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Imogen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Imogen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Imogen, and how old are they?
3,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,179 Americans ever recorded as Imogen. The median Imogen alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,221 people named Imogen (2,217 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,021 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Imogen rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 843 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,250 |
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 Imogen born?
The states with the most babies named Imogen are Texas, California and New York, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,289 | 0.6× |
| California | 12 | #1,784 | 0.9× |
| New York | 11 | #1,270 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 11 | #602 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #912 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #538 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,057 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 8 | #885 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #624 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,092 | 0.3× |
Where Imogen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Imogen is most over-represented in Washington: since 1915 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 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 Imogen 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 31,498 babies since 1880, Imogen is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 211 of their 281 babies (75%), the 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 Imogen
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 Imogen and names like it
- Compare Imogen and ImogeneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sImogen peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Imogen since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Imogen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Imogen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.