Italy
#1,936 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Italy has been given to 2,230 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #1,936 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 133 recorded.
Babies named Italy, 2025
1 in 33,200
Italy over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Italy?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 33,200
- 100 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 16,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,936
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 22,980 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Italy sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 22,980 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Italy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Italys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Italy was born before 2016 — so the typical Italy is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,210
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (948).
Is Italy 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
- −225
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −276
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +53
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 75.2%
- Peak was 2018 (133)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.4% average annual change
Spellings of Italy
Italy is not the most common spelling — Stacy is, with 78.3% against Italy's 1.1%.
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 Italy is used
Across 2016–2025, Italy was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 12,126 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 3,333
- 2Mississippi1 in 4,545
- 3South Carolina1 in 4,545
- 4Georgia1 in 5,000
- 5Illinois1 in 5,882
- 6Michigan1 in 6,667
- 7Alabama1 in 8,333
- 8Ohio1 in 9,091
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.
Italy around the world
Where Italy 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.
- South Australia1958–1958#598in 1958
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Italy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Italy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Italy
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Italy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Italy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.