Meaning & origin
What it means
Imane goes back to Arabic إيمان, meaning “faith.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Imane through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 276
- 0 boys · 276 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,302 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +10%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,302 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 840 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Imane’s family of names
In English usage, Imane was borrowed from the Arabic form إيمان.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Imane
- Imane KhelifAlgerian boxerborn 1999
- PokimaneMoroccan-Canadian streamer and YouTuber (born 1996)
- Imane SaoudMoroccan and French footballerborn 2002
- Imane ChebelAlgerian footballerborn 1995
- Imane AbdelahadMoroccan association football playerborn 1994
- Imane FadilItalian-Moroccan model, witness in the Rubygate trial1985–2019
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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