Imo
Imo reached its high-water mark in 1922 at number 1,366, and has been recorded 908 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1983. About 110 Imos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 85.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Imo boys named Imo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 908
- Estimated living today
- 110
- Median age today
- 85
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 1,366th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 903 / 5
How old the living Imos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 908 babies given the name since 1885, about 110 are alive — 12 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1940 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Imo is most common
Across the country Imo is recorded 0.03 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Imos are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular girls’ names the year Imo peaked:
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Imo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.