Entry № 4508 · Arabic origin

Iman Iman — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-mahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Faith (Arabic)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "faith (arabic)".

Iman (إيمان) is the Arabic word for "faith" — one of the concepts of Islamic spirituality.

Iman Abdulmajid (born 1955) is the Somali-American supermodel, philanthropist, and David Bowie's late wife.

Faith. The Arabic.

The name in its native script.

إيمان
Transliteration
Īmān
Pronunciation
/ iːˈmɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iman stands.

Iman does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Imans before her.

Real people
Iman Abdulmajid
Somali-American supermodel, David Bowie's wife.
born 1955
In fiction
Iman
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Iman.

The number behind Iman.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iman reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.