Īmã

surname · Latin script

Īmã is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: to commemorate; commemoration, conclave.

  • NGNigeria≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia≈1 in 41Kfew records
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 56Kfew records

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈36,000 people, est.

Record sources
215 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

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, NG Nigeria, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.

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

Cited for this meaning 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)

Īmã 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 Īmã is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈36,000 est.≈1 in 41K1Ima13
NG Nigeria≈17,000 est.≈1 in 14K—Ima36
US United States1,8891 in 176K1.8KIma215
MY Malaysia≈640 est.≈1 in 56K—Ima23
GB United Kingdom≈410 est.≈1 in 168KlistedIma64
CA Canada≈310 est.≈1 in 132K—Ima29
SG Singapore≈81 est.≈1 in 75K—Ima11

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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)

Īmã is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name25 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Ima, Imá, Ìmá, Îma, Ïmä

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 Īmã 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 Īmã 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.
In which country does Īmã have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Īmã in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ima.
How common is the name Īmã?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,889 people named Īmã 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, “Īmã”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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