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The first name 
Imogen

Imogen is a first name for girls.

Imogen is a well-known but special name!

Imogen 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 1,289 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,288 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 Imogen.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Imogen

Imogen -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Imogen 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), Imogen seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,131, 183 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Imogen, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Imogen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Imogen in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Imogen a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,170 - with a total of 184 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.

Imogen -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Imogen, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to women and girls named Imogen. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Imogen living in one state or another. If your name is Imogen and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Washington, which has the most people named Imogen relative to the population, you still have to ask 28,115 women and girls their names before you hear Imogen as an answer just once.

Imogen has 6 letters 
and begins with an I

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 six letters, the name Imogen is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Imogen

If your name is Imogen 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...

This is how you spell the name Imogen

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Imogen, you can simply say:

Igloo

Mouse

Orange

Goat

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Imogen is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Imogen in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Imogen

Imogen

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Imogen

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Imogen is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

I
M
O
G
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Imogen

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
O
G
E
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Imogen sounds like this: