Idy is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Eddy, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Idy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,306 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,306 in 2020; #3,357 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Idy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,357 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #3,306.
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Idy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,306 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 48 (2021).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Idy, making it the 3,357th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,849 places from #5,206 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 25 girls named Idy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,306, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 48, in 2021. For comparison, it was #7,093 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Idy in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 7 babies. In all, 575 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 248 babies named Idy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 360 US girls were named Idy; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eddy (14,431 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Idy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,206 | — | — |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,731 | — | — |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,700 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,107 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,093 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,823 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,527 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,431 | — | — |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,354 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,720 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,965 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,274 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,385 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,852 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,515 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,265 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,533 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,700 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,277 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,956 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,788 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,080 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,108 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,485 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,434 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,347 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).