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Italy

Italy: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“from Italia, name of the country”
Origin
Italian
Say it
IT-uh-lee · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

Taken from the place-name Italy, from Latin Italia. As a given name it is a modern place-name usage rather than a traditional personal name.

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How popular is Italy?

202435.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Italy in 2024117

2024 rank#1,728 girls

Peak year2023

Total US babies since 18802,123

Italy is rising: use over the last five years is 1.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Italy

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Miamine; also Maria diminutive · Italian
  • IsabellaGod is my oath · Italian
  • GiannaGod is gracious · Italian
  • Ariaair; melody · Italian
  • Bellabeautiful · Italian
  • Siennafrom Siena · Italian
  • Ariannamost holy · Italian
  • Gemmagem, jewel · Italian

Italy questions

What does the name Italy mean?

Italy means "from Italia, name of the country". It comes from Italian. Taken from the place-name Italy, from Latin Italia. As a given name it is a modern place-name usage rather than a traditional personal name.

Is Italy a boy or girl name?

Italy is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Italy?

117 US babies were named Italy in 2024. Its peak year was 2023.

How do you pronounce Italy?

Italy is usually pronounced IT-uh-lee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.