{"id":13506,"date":"2018-07-04T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2018-07-03T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T11:37:33","slug":"baby-name-to-discuss-imogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/07\/04\/baby-name-to-discuss-imogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Name to Discuss: Imogen"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you think of using the name Imogen for a baby girl? Both my husband and I are American and I like that the name has an international flair and isn’t too popular, but I am worried that it is too foreign sounding. I am also worried that since people aren’t very familiar with the name, that she would spend her life telling people how to spell and pronounce her name. We already have a daughter with a Celtic name, and thought it would sound nice together, but our daughter’s name is more familiar to Americans (currently in the top 200 names in the US). Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I like it and it was on my list. But I too was concerned about unfamiliarity: it’s not even in the U.S. Top 1000. In 2017, the name Imogen was given to 169 new U.S. baby girls. For comparison, the #1000 most popular name (Alora) was given to 257 new U.S. baby girls. Imogen is approximately as popular as the names Geneva, Navy, Noah (for a girl), Belinda, Winifred, Rosalina, and Indigo.<\/p>\n

Let’s see what it’s been doing usage-wise.<\/p>\n

1980: not in the database, which means 0-4 babies given the name that year
\n1985: not in the database
\n1990: not in the database
\n1995: 8
\n2000: 18
\n2005: 38
\n2010: 101
\n2015: 141<\/p>\n

I find that encouraging.<\/p>\n

I do think you and she would spend some time spelling it and pronouncing it, and there will be a few people who haven’t heard of the name before. It kind of depends on how much you think that would bother you: everyone has a different level of tolerance for Name Fuss. It’s getting close to my own tolerance levels, and I would be delighted to encounter it on someone else’s child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you think of using the name Imogen for a baby girl? Both my husband and I are American and I like that the name has an international flair and isn’t too popular, but I am worried that it is too foreign sounding. I am also worried that since people aren’t very familiar with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3vQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13507,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}