Imogen

Where Imogen comes from

First used by William Shakespeare in Cymbeline, a misprint for Innogen, from Scottish Gaelic inghean (“girl, maiden”)
— Wiktionary's entry for Imogen
  • Celtic
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,134 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #1,117
    211 babies named Imogen — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Celtic languages.
Namesakes

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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.