Îmâm
given name · Latin script
Îmâm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Indonesia it is the 57th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 467K
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
251 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Imam in ID Indonesia, US United States.
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)Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 45 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Îmâm 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.
251 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Îmâm mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Îmâm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 251 people named Îmâm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled imam.
- Where is Îmâm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Îmâm is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Îmâm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 251 people named Îmâm in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Îmâm compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Îmâm is the 57th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Îmâm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AEm%C3%A2mThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Îmâm” — the 57th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.