Imogen
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Imogen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Celtic languages.
- AUAustralia1 in 3.5K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 150K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.4K ●
- Sources
- 180 ●
- 1 in 150K ◐
across 7 countries
20K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
A female given name from the Celtic languages.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #492 | 33,184 | 12K rec. | — | 181 | Imogen | 152 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 12,056 | 5.6K rec. | — | 691 | Imogen | 160 |
| US United States | — | 2,217 | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 150K | 2.2K | Imogen | 180 |
| CA Canada | — | 711 | 81 rec. | — | 5 | Imogen | 51 |
| NZ New Zealand | #990 | 200 | 110 rec. | — | 32 | Imogen | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 160 | 154 rec. | — | — | Imogen | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 151 | 139 rec. | — | — | Imogen | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 110△ | 39 rec. | 1 in 157K | 110 | Imogen | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | 66 | 53 rec. | — | — | Imogen | 11 |
| IE Ireland | — | 57 | 37 rec. | — | — | Imogen | 25 |
| NO Norway | — | 55 | 8 rec. | — | 52 | Imogen | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 43△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English48K92%
- German6251%
- French5661%
- Spanish4231%
- Dutch2071%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 48,485 | 92% |
| German | 625 | 1% |
| French | 566 | 1% |
| Spanish | 423 | 1% |
| Dutch | 207 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Imogen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Celtic/Latin; imperious, the imperial
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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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1967 | 1 |
| 1968 | 1 |
| 1969 | 1 |
| 1973 | 1 |
| 1976 | 1 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 2 |
| 1979 | 2 |
| 1982 | 1 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1985 | 3 |
| 1986 | 1 |
| 1987 | 2 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 2 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 17 |
| 1999 | 22 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 26 |
| 2002 | 27 |
| 2003 | 44 |
| 2004 | 67 |
| 2005 | 42 |
| 2006 | 45 |
| 2007 | 66 |
| 2008 | 63 |
| 2009 | 37 |
| 2010 | 44 |
| 2011 | 47 |
| 2012 | 41 |
| 2013 | 52 |
| 2014 | 51 |
| 2015 | 36 |
| 2016 | 37 |
| 2017 | 35 |
| 2018 | 32 |
| 2019 | 33 |
| 2020 | 30 |
| 2022 | 23 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 33 |
| 2025 | 29 |
AU SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) — 50 years between 1967–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Imogen Cunninghamb. 1883USAmerican photographer (1883-1976)
- Imogen Holstb. 1907GBEnglish composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator (1907-1984)
- Imogen Cooperb. 1949GBBritish pianist
- Imogen Suttonb. 1950CAcanadian-British film producer and director
- Imogen Koggeb. 1957DEGerman actress
- Imogen Stubbsb. 1961GBBritish actress
- Imogen Heapb. 1977GBBritish musician
- Imogen Thomasb. 1982GBWelsh model
- Imogen Pootsb. 1989GBBritish actress
- Imogen Waterhouseb. 1994GBBritish model and actress
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 42 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 433 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Imogen?
- We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Imogen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Imogen have the most bearers?
- Imogen is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled imogen.
- How common is Imogen compared with other names?
- In Australia, Imogen is the 492nd most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
- Is Imogen a male or female name?
- Imogen 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 Imogen mean?
- Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Celtic languages.
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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.
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, “Imogen” — the 492nd most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.