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Imona vs Imoni

American parents have registered 576 Imonis since 1880, against 167 Imonas. Imoni is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Imona against Imoni, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Imona Imoni

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 34 years in which either name was published, Imoni for 27 years and Imona for 7 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Imona Imoni
Total US births 167576
Most in one year 3731
Babies in 2025 913
Estimated living today 170570
Median age today 519
Peak year 20191995
Best rank 3,923rd girls3,492nd girls
Rank in 2025 10,107th7,885th
First recorded 20171991
Girls / boys 167 / 0576 / 0

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 Imonis alive today are over 19; half the Imonas are over 5. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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