Ixchel
Ixchel was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,805 among girls’ names; 1,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Ixchel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ixchel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ixchel?
#4,805 among girls’ names, 2025
Ixchel rose from #5,907 in 2015 to #4,805 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 17.4 per million.
69 babies in 2007, the peak
Ixchel peaked in 2007, when 69 girls were given it, #2,656 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,805 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,249 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,225 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,711 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,009 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,649 | 25.4 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,590 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,808 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,612 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,517 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,907 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,872 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,571 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,188 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,947 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,432 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,902 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,667 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,656 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,880 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,155 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,034 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,061 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,318 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,132 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,852 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,895 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,725 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,974 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,304 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,789 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,901 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,706 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,013 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,981 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,613 | 3.7 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,510 | 3.6 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,135 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,081 | 7.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ixchel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ixchel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ixchel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ixchel, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,043 Americans ever recorded as Ixchel. The median Ixchel alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 872 people named Ixchel (866 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 838 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 535 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 409 |
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 Ixchel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,600 | 2.8× |
Where Ixchel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ixchel is most over-represented in California: since 1968 it was given 2.8 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 Ixchel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ixchel
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 Ixchel and names like it
- Compare Ixchel and AlizaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIxchel peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ixchel since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Ixchel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ixchel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.