Given name & surname
Itai
“God is beside me”
Itai is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “God is beside me.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “God is beside me.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Itai through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 545
- 545 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 22
- #4,602 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +10%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 22 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,602 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 10.2% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 2008. In 2025, New Jersey had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 645 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Itai’s family of names
Itai has a related form in Itiel. Itai has a related form in Itiell. Itai has a related form in Ittai.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Itai
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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