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Imagene vs Imanol

American parents have registered 1,246 Imanols since 1880, against 547 Imagenes. Imanol is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Imagene 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 63 years in which either name was published, Imagene for 36 years and Imanol for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Imagene Imanol
Total US births 5471,246
Most in one year 32188
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 1101,200
Median age today 8419
Peak year 19282006
Best rank 1,366th girls985th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 19151998
Girls / boys 547 / 00 / 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 Imagenes alive today are over 84; half the Imanols are over 19. That is 65 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: Imagene and Imanol.