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Italo

#7,364 in 2025Boys' name

Italy, through italus

Italo has been given to 760 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #7,364 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Italo, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Italo: meaning, origin, and history

Italy, through italus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Italo means

Italo belongs to the name family reached through Italo → italus. Its meaning is “Italy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Italo is used in Italian.

Italo comes through Latin italus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include italus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Italo is pronounced /ˈi.ta.lo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 760 boys were recorded with the name Italo between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,271 in 1918.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,318 in 2020 to #7,364 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,960 in 2015 to #7,364 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Italo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,364
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Italo 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Italo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Italos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Italo was born before 1935 — so the typical Italo is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
370
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1910s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (163).

Is Italo 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
−373
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+954
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,596
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.5%
Peak was 1918 (31)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,271
1918

Spellings of Italo

Italo is not the most common spelling — Talon is, with 75.0% against Italo's 4.6%.

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 Italo is used

Across 1910–2025, Italo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 469,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Italo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Italo around the world

Where Italo 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.

  • France
    1909–2007
    #4,134
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1953–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Italo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,364
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 954
Best rank ever
#1,271
1918
Peak year
1918
31 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
760
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Italo

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

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Sibling names for Italo

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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