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Ita vs Itati

American parents have registered 660 Itas since 1880, against 434 Itatis. Ita is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ita against Itati, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ita Itati

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 74 years in which either name was published, Ita for 56 years and Itati for 18 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ita Itati
Total US births 660434
Most in one year 2537
Babies in 2025 2511
Estimated living today 540430
Median age today 1521
Peak year 20132000
Best rank 5,317th girls3,527th girls
Rank in 2025 5,099th8,860th
First recorded 19001994
Girls / boys 660 / 0434 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Itatis alive today are over 21; half the Itas are over 15. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ita and Itati.