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Itzan vs Itzayana

American parents have registered 4,464 Itzayanas since 1880, against 66 Itzans. Itzayana is still ahead, with 127 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Itzan against Itzayana, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Itzan Itzayana

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

Itzayana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Itzan had 11 and Itzayana had 127.

Side by side

  Itzan Itzayana
Total US births 664,464
Most in one year 19368
Babies in 2025 11127
Estimated living today 704,400
Median age today 38
Peak year 20222016
Best rank 5,019th boys773rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,194th1,631st
First recorded 20201993
Girls / boys 0 / 664,464 / 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 Itzayanas alive today are over 8; half the Itzans are over 3. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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