Îmâ

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Îmâ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: to commemorate; commemoration, conclave.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 176K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 157K
  • SESweden1 in 186K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,889 people, 2020

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 157K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ima in US United States, BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to commemorate; commemoration, conclave

Sources 5

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Îmâ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Îmâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,8891 in 176K1.8KIma79
BR Brazil1311 in 1.6M131Ima39
NL Netherlands601 in 288K60—3
SE Sweden551 in 186K55——
UY Uruguay181 in 188K18—5
LV Latvia121 in 157K12—1

1,889 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Îmâ is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name62 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Ima, I'Ma, Ïmä, Ïmå, Ïmã

  • Indonesian given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ima, 'Ima, Îmã, Ïmă, Imã

  • Swedish given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Denmark, India

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Ima, Íma, Imãã, Îmåå, Îmà

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Îmâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Îmâ mean, and where does it come from?
to commemorate; commemoration, conclave Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
Is Îmâ a male or female name?
Îmâ is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Îmâ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Îmâ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ima.
Where is Îmâ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Îmâ is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 157 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Îmâ?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,889 people named Îmâ in 2020, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Îmâ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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