girls:
19.6k births since 1977
#1043 (82nd percentile)
boys:
107 births since 1989
#4479 (2nd percentile)
overall:
19.7k births since 1977
#1826 (76th percentile)
The name Itzel is the #1,826 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,739 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 76.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,043 (81.8% percentile) for all time with 19,632 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,479 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 107 births since 1989.
Itzel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Itzel is available in 44 out of the 47 years between 1977 and 2023 (44 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Itzel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Itzel reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 66.8% percentile (ranked #312) with 481 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 481 births per million (ranked 66.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Itzel is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #340 (64.2% percentile) with 480 births per million.
For boys, Itzel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Itzel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Itzel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.2% confident that Itzel is pronounced as IHT-sehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IHT-ZEHL, at 14.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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