How popular is “Imani” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Imani” 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 “Imani” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Imani” 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
1970	9	0.000002495	9		100%
1971	15	0.00000437	15		100%
1972	30	0.000009545	21	9	40%
1973	42	0.000013922	29	13	38%
1974	32	0.000010526	32		100%
1975	33	0.000010929	25	8	52%
1976	32	0.000010546	25	7	56%
1977	40	0.000012592	31	9	55%
1978	49	0.000015439	36	13	47%
1979	48	0.000014427	32	16	33%
1980	47	0.000013645	37	10	57%
1981	48	0.000013875	36	12	50%
1982	53	0.000015108	40	13	51%
1983	51	0.000014726	42	9	65%
1984	41	0.000011752	32	9	56%
1985	36	0.000010087	36		100%
1986	54	0.000015181	48	6	78%
1987	53	0.000014699	48	5	81%
1988	84	0.000022733	76	8	81%
1989	136	0.000035376	127	9	87%
1990	228	0.000057685	203	25	78%
1991	313	0.000080354	288	25	84%
1992	449	0.000116888	427	22	90%
1993	587	0.000155691	541	46	84%
1994	948	0.000255	905	43	91%
1995	1077	0.000294089	1034	43	92%
1996	1223	0.000335326	1171	52	91%
1997	1237	0.000341171	1185	52	92%
1998	1272	0.000345821	1222	50	92%
1999	1078	0.000291835	1035	43	92%
2000	1092	0.000288896	1051	41	92%
2001	1077	0.000287707	1047	30	94%
2002	1007	0.000269374	968	39	92%
2003	981	0.000258	954	27	94%
2004	843	0.000220627	801	42	90%
2005	780	0.000202869	757	23	94%
2006	804	0.000203226	785	19	95%
2007	862	0.000215625	845	17	96%
2008	872	0.000221845	841	31	93%
2009	795	0.000208106	774	21	95%
2010	887	0.000240006	861	26	94%
2011	841	0.00022992	809	32	92%
2012	833	0.000227759	807	26	94%
2013	652	0.000178842	628	24	93%
2014	646	0.000174294	626	20	94%
2015	603	0.000162933	584	19	94%
2016	601	0.000163818	576	25	92%
2017	608	0.000170013	573	35	88%
2018	630	0.000179186	607	23	93%
2019	636	0.000183236	596	40	87%
2020	611	0.000182903	579	32	90%
2021	640	0.000188905	582	58	82%
2022	674	0.000199224	627	47	86%
2023	701	0.000211706	647	54	85%
2024	628	0.000188674	583	45	86%

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