Iman vs Imani

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Iman Imani

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 56 years in which either name was published, Imani for 50 years and Iman for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1970–1979 Imani ahead
• 1980–1981 Iman ahead
• 1982 Imani ahead
• 1983–1985 Iman ahead
• 1986 Imani ahead
• 1987 Iman ahead
• 1988–2025 Imani ahead

Side by side

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.

Where each one is strongest

• Iman Virginia (2.8×), Maryland (2.6×), New York (2.3×)
• Imani the District of Columbia (3.6×), Maryland (2.5×), Georgia (2.2×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

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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