Iman is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Iman is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,782 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,781 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Iman.
Iman is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Iman - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 874 in 1996. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Iman really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Iman was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
189 babies were named Iman in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,359,926 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Iman ranked 1,147 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Iman are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Iman in 22 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Iman live in Virginia – here, one in 16,137 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 48,666 will turn around if you call her first name Iman.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Iman is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.7% of all girls’ names begin with an I, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names that begin with an I, which are quite popular
If your name is Iman and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Iman, you can simply say:
Igloo
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Iman
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
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N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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M
A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Iman sounds like this:
