Meaning not yet researched.
Italy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,592 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,592 in 2021; #1,936 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Italy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,936 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,592.
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Italy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,592 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 133 (2018).
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Italy, making it the 1,936th most common girls’ name of the year, down 225 places from #1,711 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 119 girls named Italy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,592, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 133, in 2018. For comparison, it was #1,989 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Italy in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 2,230 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 948 babies named Italy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,202 US girls were named Italy; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Italy ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #377 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Italia (3,005 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 Italy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 12 | #377 | #943 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #828 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #935 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,440 | #845 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,476 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,497 | #1,343 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,113 | #1,655 |
| California | 8 | #2,367 | #2,084 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,629 | 5 | #12,971 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 2015 | 100 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,140 | — | — |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,621 | — | — |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,627 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,851 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,881 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,956 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,800 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,367 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,018 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,692 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,615 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,097 | — | — |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,618 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,147 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,172 | — | — |
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).