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Imogene

As a girl's name, Imogene is understood to mean "Possibly a misprint of Innogen in Shakespeare". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1927 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

EtymologyPossibly a misprint of "Innogen" in Shakespeare
CelticCeltic – "innocent, maiden"
Births by decade
1900s
597
1910s
3,690
1920s
11,311
1930s
6,965
1940s
2,455
1950s
1,102
1960s
352
1970s
113
1980s
58
1990s
44
2000s
87
2010s
247
Peaked in the 1920s · 27,021 total U.S. births since 1900