Imani

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Imani: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Imani: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #505 in 2010, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#505highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#802
1997	#1074
1998	#639
1999	#691
2000	#804
2001	#1170
2002	#667
2003	#712
2004	#883
2005	#680
2006	#606
2007	#774
2008	#527
2009	#514
2010	#505
2011	#692
2012	#701
2013	#733
2014	#963
2015	#794
2016	#594
2017	#715
2018	#689
2019	#694
2020	#655
2021	#674
2022	#606
2023	#600
2024	#583

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #606 among girls in England and Wales, #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #802 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #505 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Imani appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,450 births with the name.

Imani across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Imani's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1821 (1998)	#3688 (2024)	18 of 29	78 (1996–2024)	7 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#802 (1996)	#505 (2010)	#583 (2024)	29 of 29	1,450 (1996–2024)	80 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#905 (2022)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	2 of 4	7 (2022–2025)	4 (2025)

Imani by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Imani in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	119	4 of 10	30
2000s	447	10 of 10	45
2010s	577	10 of 10	58
2020sbusiest	307	5 of 10	61

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 61 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births rose by 31, from 42 to 73.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Imani appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #505 in England and Wales in 2010.

Imani's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#583	67	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#600	63	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#606	63	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#674	57	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#694	56	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#689	58	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#715	57	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#594	71	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#794	48	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#963	38	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#733	54	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#701	59	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#692	56	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#505	80	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#514	78	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#527	73	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#774	42	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#606	55	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#680	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#883	30	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#712	39	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#667	40	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#691	34	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#639	39	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1074	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#802	28	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #505, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Imam · #2005, 14y
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Imara · #2253, 22y
Imari · #3449, 9y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ahad · #506, 29y
Boluwatife · #506, 25y
Danish · #506, 29y
Ely · #506, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Krishan · #505, 29y
Ahad · #506, 29y
Boluwatife · #506, 25y
Chesney · #506, 13y

Imani was ranked #505 in England and Wales · Girls in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Imani and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Imani without appearing here.

Imani moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #4702.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4001 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3990 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Imani

Hudson Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1821 and #2419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #1889.
Theodor Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1821 and #2074 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #1889.
Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2189 and #3467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #4432 and #3687.
Daithi Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2728 and #4702 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #3334.

Moved the opposite way to Imani

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Imani

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Imani went from #2357 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #505 in England and Wales in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Imani

Imani at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Imani across 3 official records

Imani by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Imani appears in

Popularity data

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Imani at a glance

Imani across 3 official records

Imani by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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