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UnisexOrigin: ArabicIn Israel: steady

ImanIn Hebrew: אימאן · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

Iman (Hebrew: אימאן) is a unisex name of Arabic origin. 14,193 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 53 girls and ranked #282. Its peak year was 1990, with 359 babies.

People in Israel
14,193
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
53
rank #282
Peak year
1990
359 babies
USA, 2025
91
rank #2,064

Writing and saying Iman

In Hebrew letters the name is אימאן, read right to left. Iman is the Latin spelling recorded in Wikidata; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms.

We have no sourced English explanation of this name yet, so we do not guess one. The Hebrew page has our Hebrew notes when there are any.

Iman by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Iman: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Iman in English-speaking countries

Iman in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States202591#2,0641996 (178)
United Kingdom202548#8122004 (158)
England and Wales202548#7632006 (149)
Alberta20258#5522016 (11)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Iman has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Iman

How do you write Iman in Hebrew?

Iman is written אימאן in Hebrew. Hebrew is read right to left.

How many people in Israel are named Iman?

14,193 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name אימאן: 9,218 women and 4,975 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Iman a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 65% of the people named אימאן are women and 35% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

Is Iman used outside Israel?

The name Iman appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 91 girls were given it in 2025 (#2,064), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 48 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.