How popular is “Iman” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Iman” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Iman” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Iman” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Iman” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1972	11	0.0000035		11	-100%
1973	10	0.000003315		10	-100%
1974	14	0.000004605		14	-100%
1975	13	0.000004305	8	5	23%
1976	29	0.000009557	19	10	31%
1977	26	0.000008185	18	8	38%
1978	42	0.000013233	24	18	14%
1979	42	0.000012624	23	19	10%
1980	61	0.000017709	36	25	18%
1981	61	0.000017633	39	22	28%
1982	46	0.000013113	36	10	57%
1983	58	0.000016747	50	8	72%
1984	47	0.000013472	38	9	62%
1985	67	0.000018772	53	14	58%
1986	46	0.000012932	33	13	43%
1987	73	0.000020246	61	12	67%
1988	73	0.000019756	64	9	75%
1989	83	0.00002159	71	12	71%
1990	110	0.000027831	96	14	75%
1991	97	0.000024902	77	20	59%
1992	184	0.000047901	162	22	76%
1993	178	0.000047211	161	17	81%
1994	152	0.000040886	126	26	66%
1995	169	0.000046148	144	25	70%
1996	209	0.000057304	178	31	70%
1997	181	0.000049921	155	26	71%
1998	172	0.000046762	148	24	72%
1999	184	0.000049812	148	36	61%
2000	209	0.000055292	174	35	67%
2001	184	0.000049153	162	22	76%
2002	186	0.000049755	157	29	69%
2003	200	0.000052599	169	31	69%
2004	192	0.00005025	173	19	80%
2005	155	0.000040314	137	18	77%
2006	175	0.000044234	156	19	78%
2007	135	0.00003377	117	18	73%
2008	192	0.000048847	164	28	71%
2009	159	0.000041621	146	13	84%
2010	129	0.000034905	108	21	67%
2011	130	0.000035541	117	13	80%
2012	117	0.00003199	98	19	68%
2013	123	0.000033739	96	27	56%
2014	133	0.000035884	112	21	68%
2015	133	0.000035937	105	28	58%
2016	134	0.000036525	106	28	58%
2017	145	0.000040546	105	40	45%
2018	158	0.000044939	85	73	8%
2019	174	0.000050131	108	66	24%
2020	154	0.0000461	104	50	35%
2021	165	0.000048702	83	82	1%
2022	190	0.000056161	109	81	15%
2023	142	0.000042885	81	61	14%
2024	176	0.000052877	92	84	5%

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