Italy
Italy was given to 100 girls in 2025, #1,936 among girls’ names; 2,230 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Italy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Italy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Italy?
#1,936 among girls’ names, 2025
Italy rose from #1,989 in 2015 to #1,936 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 56.0 to 62.2 per million.
133 babies in 2018, the peak
Italy peaked in 2018, when 133 girls were given it, #1,612 among girls’ names. The 100 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,936 | 62.2 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,711 | 73.4 |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,629 | 79.8 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,801 | 69.5 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,592 | 80.4 |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,660 | 76.7 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,619 | 78.1 |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,612 | 78.2 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,727 | 71.2 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,023 | 55.3 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,989 | 56.0 |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,243 | 47.0 |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,177 | 49.0 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,381 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,066 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,877 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,139 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,238 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,008 | 30.7 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,638 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,606 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,846 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,969 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,617 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,382 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,328 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,621 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,847 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,983 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,876 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,951 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,794 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,361 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,011 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,685 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,609 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,091 | 3.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,145 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,170 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Italy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Italy has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Italy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Italy, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,230 Americans ever recorded as Italy. The median Italy alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,201 people named Italy (1,158 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,513 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 66 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 664 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,470 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Italy born?
The states with the most babies named Italy are Louisiana, Texas and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 12 | #377 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,113 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,476 | 0.4× |
| California | 8 | #2,367 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #935 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,440 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,497 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #828 | 1.2× |
Where Italy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Italy is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1918 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Italy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,596 babies since 1880, Italy is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 100 of their 186 babies (54%), the most given that year.
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 Italy
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 Italy and names like it
- Compare Italy and ItaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sItaly peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Italy since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Italy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Italy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.