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Imogen vs Imoni

American parents have registered 3,179 Imogens since 1880, against 576 Imonis. Imogen is still ahead, with 211 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Imogen against Imoni, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Imogen 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 41 years in which either name was published, Imogen for 32 years and Imoni for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Imogen Imoni
Total US births 3,179576
Most in one year 21631
Babies in 2025 21113
Estimated living today 3,100570
Median age today 819
Peak year 20241995
Best rank 1,120th girls3,492nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,117th7,885th
First recorded 19151991
Girls / boys 3,179 / 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 Imogens are over 8. That is 11 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: Imogen and Imoni.