Imara is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Imara in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Imara in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Imara by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Imara ranks at #4,907. That means there are 4,906 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Imara.
In fact, the name Imara did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Imara seemed to be more popular than ever in 2021. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,342, 39 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Imara, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Imara was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Imara a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #3,505 - with a total of 37 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Imara, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Imara living in one state or another (if your name is Imara and you live outside of California and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 648,388 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Imara. So, if your name is Imara it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Imara already makes you special.
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 five letters, the name Imara is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Imara 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 Imara, you can simply say:
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Imara
Imara
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
M
A
R
A
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.
I
M
A
R
A
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. Imara sounds like this:
