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Itai vs Itati

American parents have registered 545 Itais since 1880, against 434 Itatis. Itai is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Itai 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 35 years in which either name was published, Itai for 22 years and Itati for 13 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Itai Itati
Total US births 545434
Most in one year 2637
Babies in 2025 2211
Estimated living today 540430
Median age today 1421
Peak year 20082000
Best rank 3,921st boys3,527th girls
Rank in 2025 4,539th8,860th
First recorded 19911994
Girls / boys 0 / 545434 / 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 Itais are over 14. That is 7 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: Itai and Itati.