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Italia vs Itati

American parents have registered 3,005 Italias since 1880, against 434 Itatis. Italia is still ahead, with 67 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Italia against Itati, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Italia 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 66 years in which either name was published, Italia for 65 years and Itati for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Italia Itati
Total US births 3,005434
Most in one year 13137
Babies in 2025 6711
Estimated living today 2,700430
Median age today 1521
Peak year 20072000
Best rank 1,679th girls3,527th girls
Rank in 2025 2,583rd8,860th
First recorded 19111994
Girls / boys 3,005 / 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 Italias 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: Italia and Itati.