Imani

Where Imani comes from

Borrowed from Swahili, from imani (“faith, belief”), from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān).
— Wiktionary's entry for Imani
  • Swahili
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #5,413 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Imani Coppola born
    American singer and musician
  3. 1993
    Imani Hakim born
    American actress
  4. 1996
    Peak, #239
    1,171 babies named Imani — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #533.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Swahili.
Namesakes
  • Imani Hakim · American actress, born 1993
  • Imani Coppola · American singer and musician, born 1978
  • Imani Rose · American pornographic actress, born 1986
  • Imani Uzuri · African American singer and musician
  • Imani Dorsey · American soccer player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.