In 2025, 86 US girls were named Idalia, making it the 2,162nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 436 places from #1,726 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 118 girls named Idalia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,370, reached in 1889. The most girls given the name in a single year was 160, in 2023. For comparison, it was #5,902 in 2015 and #2,822 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Idalia in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 3,338 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 518 babies named Idalia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 651 US girls were named Idalia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,689 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Idalia ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #776 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Idaly (994 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Idali, Idelia and Edilia are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.