Girl Names That Start With I
Girls' names beginning with I, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 2.9%
- vs 1.4% in 2000
- Names in use
- 414
- 1,251 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2025
- at 2.9% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #12
- by 2025 share
How I has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with I, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,666#7 | Steady | 2010 | |||
| 442#651 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 209#1,120 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,746#177 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 1,825#166 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 3,729#61 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 5,117#39 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 156#1,400 | Up 656 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 6,012#28 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 117#1,740 | Up 125 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 532#564 | Down 224 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 512#579 | Down 57 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 209#1,121 | Down 113 rank positions in five years | 1967 | |||
| 390#718 | Up 148 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 118#1,722 | Down 704 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 850#359 | Up 209 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 810#378 | Up 226 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 380#730 | Up 161 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 426#664 | Up 171 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 128#1,625 | Up 826 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 530#567 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 217#1,102 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 222#1,086 | Up 349 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 213#1,111 | Up 662 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 100#1,935 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 99#1,949 | Down 513 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 176#1,276 | Up 279 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 91#2,072 | Down 208 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 282#926 | Up 612 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 177#1,265 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 127#1,637 | Down 876 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 459#634 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 572#525 | Up 384 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 318#854 | Up 174 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 350#776 | Up 365 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 119#1,717 | Up 309 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 211#1,117 | Up 121 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 95#2,009 | Down 390 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 237#1,049 | Up 632 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 127#1,636 | Up 295 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 112#1,801 | Up 508 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 353#768 | Up 746 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 100#1,936 | Down 276 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 146#1,472 | Up 930 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 147#1,463 | Up 804 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 94#2,028 | Down 184 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 107#1,860 | Up 937 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 102#1,903 | Up 828 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 213#1,110 | Up 3,372 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 104#1,890 | Up 1,679 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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I names climbing fastest
Biggest I names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.