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Italia

#2,594 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Italia has been given to 3,005 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #2,594 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 131 recorded.

Babies named Italia, 2025

1 in 49,500

Italia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Italia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Italia means

Italia is a given name.

The naming story behind Italia

Wikidata records Italia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q510613, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,005 girls were recorded with the name Italia between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 131 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,389 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,535 in 2020 to #2,594 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,913 in 2015 to #2,594 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 Italia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,594
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Italia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Italia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Italias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Italia was born before 2009 — so the typical Italia is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,753
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (963).

Is Italia 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
−353
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−59
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−681
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.1%
Peak was 2007 (131)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,389
1917

Spellings of Italia

Italia is not the most common spelling — Natalia is, with 24.3% against Italia's 0.86%.

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 Italia is used

Across 1910–2025, Italia was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 53,971 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Italia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Italia around the world

Where Italia 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
    1997–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    1905–2025
    #6,311
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1946–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Italia

People whose public names include Italia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Italia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,594
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 59
Best rank ever
#1,389
1917
Peak year
2007
131 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,005
Count in 2025
67

Names similar to Italia

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

ItalyAmiliaOdeliaIdaliaLilliaTahliaKhaliaAdaliaGiuliaAzaliaOtiliaEveliaAdeliaOraliaCameliaVeliaKahliaOdiliaAnaliaNoeliaMahaliaOfeliaOreliaAtalia

Names with a curve like Italia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Italia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EmelynAlynaElliVianneySinaiJanellyMarynTaleahYarelyKyrahDayannaNiyah

Sibling names for Italia

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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