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Imad vs Imanol

American parents have registered 1,246 Imanols since 1880, against 572 Imads. But in 2025 it was Imad that was commoner, 20 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Imad against Imanol, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Imad Imanol

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Imad for 29 years and Imanol for 19 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Imad Imanol
Total US births 5721,246
Most in one year 21188
Babies in 2025 209
Estimated living today 5601,200
Median age today 2119
Peak year 20012006
Best rank 3,842nd boys985th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th8,243rd
First recorded 19771998
Girls / boys 0 / 5720 / 1,246

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Imads alive today are over 21; half the Imanols are over 19. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Imad Imanol
France 3,335955

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Imad and Imanol.