Ithiel is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ethel, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ithiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,027 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,027 in 2023; #3,799 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ithiel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,799 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #3,027.
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Ithiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,027 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 41 (2023).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Ithiel, making it the 3,799th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,651 places from #7,450 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 11 boys named Ithiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,027, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 41. For comparison, it was #7,707 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ithiel in 17 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 5 babies. In all, 199 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 121 babies named Ithiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 153 US boys were named Ithiel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ethel (280,412 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 Ithiel 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.
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).