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Imanol vs Imari

American parents have registered 3,451 Imaris since 1880, against 1,246 Imanols. Imari is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Imanol Imari

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 50 years in which either name was published, Imari for 48 years and Imanol for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Imanol Imari
Total US births 1,2463,451
Most in one year 188161
Babies in 2025 947
Estimated living today 1,2003,400
Median age today 1922
Peak year 20062003
Best rank 985th boys1,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd5,410th
First recorded 19981969
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2462,365 / 1,086

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 Imaris alive today are over 22; half the Imanols are over 19. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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