Imes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of German Eimes, a patronymic from a short form of the Germanic personal name Agimo, formed with agi ‘point (of a sword or lance)’ (Old High German ecka)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈaɪmz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Imes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 136K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 5.2M
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
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)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 136K (inferred from the name graph)
2,448 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized spelling of German Eimes, a patronymic from a short form of the Germanic personal name Agimo, formed with agi ‘point (of a sword or lance)’ (Old High German ecka).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Imes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,448 | 1 in 136K | 2.4K | Imes | 45 |
| BR Brazil | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Imes | 19 |
| IN India | — | — | 5 | — | — |
2,448 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Imes 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.
In English, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Estonian, inessive singular of ime
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Birney Imesb. 1951USAmerican photographer (born 1951)
- Mo'Niqueb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican stand-up comedian and actress
- Chris Imesb. 1972USAmerican ice hockey player
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,642 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,292 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #200,558 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #338,956 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #340,662 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Imes mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Eimes, a patronymic from a short form of the Germanic personal name Agimo, formed with agi ‘point (of a sword or lance)’ (Old High German ecka). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Imes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaɪmz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Imes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Imes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled imes.
- Where is Imes most common?
- Imes is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 136 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Imes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,448 people named Imes in 2010, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/imesThe 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, “Imes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.