Izel
Izel is given to both girls and boys: 60 girls and 30 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,836 among girls’ names and #3,693 among boys’, #3,811 among all names counting both); 1,944 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Izel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Izel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Izel?
#2,836 among girls’ names, 2025
Izel fell from #2,286 in 2015 to #2,836 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 45.9 to 37.3 per million.
127 babies in 2011, the peak
Izel peaked in 2011, when 127 babies were given it (107 girls, #1,878 among girls’ names). The 90 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,836 | 30 | #3,693 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,732 | 25 | #4,242 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,866 | 23 | #4,515 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,515 | 20 | #4,911 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,373 | 25 | #4,152 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,247 | 15 | #5,810 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,109 | 6 | #11,303 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,414 | 12 | #6,865 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,112 | 6 | #11,303 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,300 | 7 | #10,076 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 82 | #2,286 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,184 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,995 | 19 | #4,863 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,122 | 15 | #5,810 |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,878 | 20 | #4,728 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,412 | 22 | #4,419 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,434 | 7 | #10,271 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,868 | 13 | #6,548 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,265 | 14 | #6,036 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,433 | 15 | #5,623 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,833 | 11 | #6,812 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,117 | 14 | #5,590 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,002 | 6 | #10,057 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,572 | 10 | #6,722 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,069 | 5 | #11,242 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,307 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,715 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,036 | 5 | #10,245 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,671 | 5 | #9,851 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,034 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,902 | 5 | #9,376 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,342 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,640 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,644 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,350 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #6,029 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,202 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,895 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Izel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,944 Americans recorded as Izel, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Izel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Izel, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,944 Americans ever recorded as Izel. The median Izel alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,292 people named Izel (1,011 women and girls, 281 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,429 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 52 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 818 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
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 Izel born?
The states with the most babies named Izel are California, Texas and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,688 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,114 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,311 | 0.9× |
Where Izel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Izel is most over-represented in California: since 1933 it was given 2.6 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 Izel 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 Izel
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 Izel and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Izel since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Izel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Izel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.