Girls' name · peaked in 1927

Imogene name popularity since 1925

18,432 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Imogene. Half of them were born in 1932 or earlier, so the typical Imogene is about 94 years old in 2026. Imogene peaked in 1927 as the #157 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 18,432; Named Imogene, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1927; #157 for girls that year
Typical age: About 94; Median birth year 1932
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,521 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.7% girls; 18,377 girls · 55 boys
Most popular in: Oklahoma; 6.64× its national share

Peak year is the year Imogene made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Imogene births per year, 1925–2025

1927 was the biggest year for Imogene both by count and as a share of all babies.

Steepest fall: Between 1937 and 1942, Imogene's share of baby girls fell by 56%, from 1 in 2,170 to 1 in 4,970.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Imogene's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Imogene.

Decade by decade

Babies named Imogene in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	6,488	15	–
1930s	6,931	35	#253
1940s	2,450	5	#483
1950s	1,101	0	#959
1960s	353	0	#2,626
1970s	113	0	#4,961
1980s	58	0	Under 5
1990s	44	0	#10,947
2000s	87	0	#10,411
2010s	352	0	#4,339
2020–25	400	0	#2,521

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

60.6% of babies named Imogene from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Imogene is most popular

The index compares Imogene's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Imogene.

State	Index	Babies
Oklahoma	6.64×	1,390
Kentucky	6.32×	1,700
Arkansas	5.87×	969
Tennessee	4.46×	1,509
West Virginia	4.09×	578

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Imogene's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Imogene.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Imogene (1927).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data