Izel — #2729 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Izel

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,463 babies named Izel between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Izel currently holds the #2729 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 107 babies received it in a single year. Izel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 390 additional births since 1933.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Izel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 741 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Izel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 579 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Izel in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Izel 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 1,463 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.