Imane
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Imane is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: inflection of imanar:.
- MAMorocco1 in 2.2K◐
- BEBelgium1 in 3.1K
- FRFrance1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- Sources
- 267 ●
- 1 in 5.6K ◐
across 10 countries
51K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
inflection of imanar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #671 | 12,210 | 37K rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 12K | Imane | 267 |
| MA Morocco | #232 | 6,849 | 6.7K rec. | — | 1 | Imane | 75 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,220△ | 653 rec. | 1 in 9.6K | 5.2K | Imane | 39 |
| BE Belgium | #374 | 4,935 | 2.3K rec. | — | 16 | Imane | 40 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,869△ | 398 rec. | 1 in 9.2K | 1.9K | Imane | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | 952 | 243 rec. | — | 1 | Imane | 38 |
| US United States | — | 830 | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 401K | 830 | Imane | 108 |
| DZ Algeria | #575 | 697 | 602 rec. | — | listed | Imane | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | 500 | 458 rec. | — | 1 | Imane | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 220 | 256 rec. | — | — | Imane | 34 |
| IT Italy | — | 211 | 189 rec. | — | 9 | Imane | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 189 | 9 rec. | — | 184 | Imane | 6 |
Roughly 12K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 5.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French102K54%
- Arabic41K22%
- Spanish14K7%
- English5.9K3%
- Catalan5.2K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 102,016 | 54% |
| Arabic | 40,706 | 22% |
| Spanish | 14,105 | 7% |
| English | 5,880 | 3% |
| Catalan | 5,220 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 14 |
| 1992 | 10 |
| 1993 | 19 |
| 1994 | 20 |
| 1995 | 19 |
| 1996 | 20 |
| 1997 | 28 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 23 |
| 2000 | 25 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 26 |
| 2003 | 32 |
| 2004 | 37 |
| 2005 | 28 |
| 2006 | 24 |
| 2007 | 25 |
| 2008 | 26 |
| 2009 | 30 |
| 2010 | 34 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 30 |
| 2013 | 19 |
| 2014 | 28 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 6 |
CA Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) — 33 years between 1991–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Imane Khalifehb. 1955LBLebanese peace activist (1955–1995)
- Houda-Imane Faraounb. 1979DZAlgerian physicist
- Imane Boushakib. 1980DZAlgerian doctor in endocrinology
- Imane Fadilb. 1985MAItalian-Moroccan model, witness in the Rubygate trial
- Imane Abdelahadb. 1994MAMoroccan association football player
- Imane Chebelb. 1995DZAlgerian footballer
- Pokimaneb. 1996MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan-Canadian streamer and YouTuber (born 1996)
- Imane Khelifb. 1999DZAlgerian boxer
- Imane Chekkalb. 2002DZbadminton player
- Imane Saoudb. 2002MAMoroccan and French footballer
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 206 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Imane?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Imane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Imane have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Imane in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled imane.
- How common is Imane compared with other names?
- In France, Imane is the 671st most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Imane a male or female name?
- Imane 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.
- What does the name Imane mean?
- Recorded meaning: inflection of imanar:
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Imane” — the 671st most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.