Italy Girl
How popular is Italy?
#1,927 girl name in 2025
100 baby girls were named Italy in the US in 2025, making it the 1927th most popular girl name.
Italy popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,927 for girls (▼ 219 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 100 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (0% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,984 in 2015, #1,654 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (133 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,584 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1918 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Italy counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Italy family of names ranked #1,363 for girls in 2025 (#1,286 the year before), with 124 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 100 | 81% |
| Itali | 11 | 9% |
| Italee | 8 | 6% |
| Italie | 5 | 4% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Italy is most popular
Babies named Italy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Louisiana: 0.4 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Illinois: 0.2 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (15 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 girls)
Italy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,807 |
| 1980s | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1990s | 113 | #4,793 |
| 2000s | 425 | #2,992 |
| 2010s | 948 | #1,609 |
| 2020s | 717 | #1,584 |
Girl names about as popular as Italy
Questions
- Is Italy a boy or girl name?
- Italy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Italy were girls.
- How popular is the name Italy?
- 100 baby girls were named Italy in the US in 2025, making it the 1927th most popular girl name.
- When was Italy most popular?
- Italy peaked in 2018, when 133 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,584 in 2021.
- How many people are named Italy?
- 2,230 babies have been named Italy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,202 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Italy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Italy was most common in Louisiana, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.