Izzy
Izzy is given to both girls and boys: 102 girls and 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,903 among girls’ names and #4,181 among boys’, #3,011 among all names counting both); 1,562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Izzy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Izzy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Izzy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Izzy is “a diminutive of the female given name Isabel, Isobel, Isabelle, Isabella, Elizabeth, Isidora, Isra, Izebel, Ismara and Isobelle.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Israel, Isaac, Isambard, Isidore, Ismail, Chreistus, Chreistos, Isaiah, Isiah, Izzet, Isarn, Ismail and Isam.”
From the /ɪz-/ root of the names + -y. The common noun derives from Isaac and Israel, male given names of Hebrew origin, popular among Jewish people, the latter also being the name of the self-defined Jewish state.
/ˈɪzi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Izzy?
#1,903 among girls’ names, 2025
Izzy rose from #3,070 in 2015 to #1,903 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.8 to 63.5 per million.
164 babies in 2022, the peak
Izzy peaked in 2022, when 164 babies were given it (140 girls, #1,534 among girls’ names). The 127 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,903 | 25 | #4,181 |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,087 | 30 | #3,728 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,939 | 20 | #4,949 |
| 2022 | 140 | #1,534 | 24 | #4,351 |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,962 | 18 | #5,204 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,731 | 22 | #4,468 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,713 | 16 | #5,657 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,517 | 15 | #5,881 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,823 | 25 | #4,154 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,841 | 24 | #4,243 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,070 | 14 | #6,104 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,340 | 17 | #5,343 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,872 | 14 | #6,036 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,432 | 10 | #7,765 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,728 | 10 | #7,703 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,711 | 13 | #6,489 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,451 | 13 | #6,569 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,014 | 11 | #7,391 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,251 | 7 | #10,183 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,525 | 7 | #9,976 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #12,122 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #12,050 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #6,723 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,377 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,533 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,470 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,197 |
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 Izzy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,562 Americans recorded as Izzy, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Izzy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Izzy, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,562 Americans ever recorded as Izzy. The median Izzy alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 3,101 people named Izzy (2,405 women and girls, 696 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 283 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,250 |
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 Izzy born?
The states with the most babies named Izzy are California, Texas and Georgia, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
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 Izzy 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,832 babies since 1880, Izzy is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 127 of their 186 babies (68%), again the most given.
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 Izzy
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 Izzy and names like it
- Compare Izzy and IzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIzzy peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Izzy since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Izzy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Izzy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.