Imani
29,212 recorded births · active 1970–2025
Compare Imani →Living-age distribution
The median living Imani is 21. If you meet a Imani, there's about a 70% chance they're between 7 and 31 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Imani: 1998. Down 45% from peak.
Projected: the dashed 10-year forecast (Holt damped-trend exponential smoothing, fit to recent years), with a shaded 95% interval.
Gender balance
4.7% male, 95.3% female.
Rarity
Imani ranks #1,525 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Imanis are 1.3x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Imani's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Imani's modeled peak was #482 in 1996 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Projects the trend forward, then converts share into rank using this year's popularity distribution.
This forecasts Imani's share of births by fitting a damped-trend model to its last 56 years of data and projecting 10 years forward with a widening uncertainty band. Each projected share is then translated into a rank by comparing it against 2025's actual name-popularity distribution — so the model implicitly assumes the overall shape of that distribution doesn't shift much over the forecast window. Its trend is projected to stay below its historic best over the next 10 years, so the model treats 1996 as its peak. Milestone probabilities come from how much of each year's uncertainty band clears that milestone's rank, combined across years as if they were independent — which slightly overstates the odds for names sitting right at a threshold, since a good year is usually followed by another good year rather than an independent coin flip.Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Imani's popularity has been easing lower recently, though not sharply enough to call it a steep decline.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Imani isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Imani enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.