Imogene is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Imogene is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Imogene. In the SmartGenius ranking, Imogene is #2,969 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 23,769 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Imogene. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Imogene is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1999, where the name Imogene was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Imogene and were born in the USA in 1999 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Imogene even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1927, it ranked on position 156 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Imogene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Imogene has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 72 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #2,218 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 72 girls named Imogene, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Imogene'.
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 seven letters, the name Imogene has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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
If your name is Imogene 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 Imogene, you can simply say:
Igloo
Mouse
Orange
Goat
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Imogene
Imogene
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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
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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. Imogene sounds like this:
