Itzel

What Itzel means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Itzel yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 850 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Itzel?

US: Rising: up from #492 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 850 girls got the name (#359 that year). First in the US records in 1977.

How common

• About 1 in 1,891 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CA (1.49 per 1,000 girls), TX (1.13 per 1,000 girls), NE (0.99 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Itzel is #359 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Itzel were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Itzell14 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Itzel

Girls

• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls
• Zoe#31Variant of Zoë, meaning “life”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*

For a brother

• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Caden#201Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #201 vs #745 in 2025
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Kaiden#237Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1992, with 12 babies
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Itzel’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.