girls:
27.8k births since 1880
#857 (85th percentile)
boys:
55 births since 1925
#4531 (1st percentile)
overall:
27.8k births since 1880
#1525 (80th percentile)
The name Imogene is the #1,525 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,813 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #857 (85.0% percentile) for all time with 27,758 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,531 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1925.
Imogene has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1925 for boys). Birth data for Imogene is available in 138 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (138 years for girls and 8 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Imogene has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Imogene reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 74.8% percentile (ranked #153) with 1,208 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 1,208 births per million (ranked 74.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Imogene ranks #894 for girls (5.6% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Imogene reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #520) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1941.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Imogene".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Imogene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.5% confident that Imogene is pronounced as IH-muh-jeen, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-muh-JEEN, at 37.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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