Idali
Idali was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,409 among girls’ names; 283 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Idali by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Idali?
#10,409 among girls’ names, 2025
Idali entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,409 in 2025.
20 babies in 2002, the peak
Idali peaked in 2002, when 20 girls were given it, #5,741 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,409 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,205 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,073 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,147 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,488 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,606 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,331 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,725 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,537 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,025 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 16 | #7,815 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,091 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,770 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,967 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,509 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,197 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,699 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,741 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,382 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,930 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,271 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,582 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,572 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,074 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,900 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,990 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,309 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,047 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Idali a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Idali has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Idali: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Idali, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Idali and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 440 people named Idali (439 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 255 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Idali rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,962 babies since 1880, Idali is the third most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 109 babies (8.3%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Idali
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Idali and names like it
- Compare Idali and IdaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIdali peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Idali since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Idali.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Idali alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.