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Itai

#4,601 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Itai has been given to 545 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,601 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Itai, 2025

1 in 151,000

Itai over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Itai: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Itai means

Itai has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Itai

A separate documented entry treats Itai as a form of Ittai. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Itai records a meaning of do, act, perform.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 545 boys were recorded with the name Itai between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,971 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,095 in 2020 to #4,601 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,784 in 2015 to #4,601 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Itai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,601
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Itai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Itai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Itais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Itai was born before 2011 — so the typical Itai is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
545
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2010s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (184).

Is Itai rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+163
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,494
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+183
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 2008 (26)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,971
2008

Spellings of Itai

Itai is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 40.5% against Itai's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Itai is used

Across 1910–2025, Itai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 269,400 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Itai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Itai around the world

Where Itai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Itai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,601
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,494
Best rank ever
#3,971
2008
Peak year
2008
26 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
545
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Itai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Itai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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