Iman
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: belief, faith in Allah. alel ails eSstazl, "Allah knows best concerning your faith.” (surat al-Nisaa’ 4:25)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈaɪmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 737(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.8K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Iman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 737 (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Īmān in AE United Arab Emirates.
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)
belief, faith in Allah. alel ails eSstazl, "Allah knows best concerning your faith.” (surat al-Nisaa’ 4:25)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Iman is read(measured from records)
Iman is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic20%
belief, faith in Allah. alel ails eSstazl, "Allah knows best concerning your faith.” (surat al-Nisaa’ 4:25)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English14%
Pious adherence to the Islamic faith.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian9.7%
faith
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish9.3%
1. İnanma, inanç. 2. İslam dinini kabul etme.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Urdu7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Iman in Urdu.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iman 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #128 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 737 | — | Iman | 28 |
| US United States | — | 21,080as Imani | 1 in 16K | 20K | Iman | 242 |
| MA Morocco | #324 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Iman | 54 |
| EG Egypt | #740 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Iman | 109 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Iman | 37 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,772 | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | — | 49 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Īmān | 99 |
| LB Lebanon | #534 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Iman | 40 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Iman is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a personal name based on Arabic iman ‘belief’, ‘faith’ (see the Qur’an 4:25).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
‘Faith’, ‘belief’. In‘am °& ‘Benefaction’, ‘bestowal’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Imanb. 1955SOSomali model and actress
- Iman Issab. 1979EGEgyptian multi-disciplinary artist (born 1979)
- Iman Alib. 1980PKPakistani actress
- Iman Crossonb. 1982USAmerican actor and comedian
- Princess Iman bint Al-Hussein of Jordanb. 1983JOJordanian royal (1983)
- Iman Shumpertb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Princess Iman bint Abdullah of Jordanb. 1996JOJordanian royal (1996)
- Iman Meskinib. 1997NONorwegian actress
- Iman Vellanib. 2002PKCanadian-Pakistani actress
- Princess Iman bint Al-Hussein of Jordanb. 2024JOJordanian royal (2024)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 95 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #18,852 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,852 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 110 | #25,778 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 110 | #25,650 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iman mean, and where does it come from?
- belief, faith in Allah. alel ails eSstazl, "Allah knows best concerning your faith.” (surat al-Nisaa’ 4:25) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Iman a male or female name?
- Iman 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 Iman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Iman in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iman.
- How common is the name Iman?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,772 people named Iman, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Iman compared with other names?
- In Syria, Iman is the 128th most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Iman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaɪmən/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What are other forms of the name Iman?
- In the etymology graph, Imen and Imani are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Iman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/imanThe 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, “Iman” — the 128th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.