Itai — #4785 US boys' name
523 babies named Itai in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 66% of names given to boys today.
35% of everyone ever named Itai was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Itai in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Itai
The Social Security Administration has registered 523 babies named Itai between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Itai currently holds the #4785 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Itai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Itai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 87 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Itai in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Itai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 523 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Itai at a glance
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Current rank
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Itai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1991
- Peak year (2008)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
Currently ranks #4785 among boys.
523 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 26 births in a single year.
Itai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 184 births that decade — 35% of Itai's all-time total
Itai decade highlights
- Peak decade 184 births
- Runner-up 179 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Itai's strongest decade
184 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Itai by state
Where Itai concentrates geographically — total births since 1991
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 87 | 16.6% |
| #2 | New York | | 40 | 7.6% |
87 of 523 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 16.6% of nationwide
- New York 7.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 16.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1991–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.