Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Itay isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Itay through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 183
- 183 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,508 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −22%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,508 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 401 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.
Itay’s family of names
In Hebrew usage, Itay is a Roman-alphabet rendering of איתי.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Itay
- Itay ShechterIsraeli association footballerborn 1987
- Itay ShannyIsraeli archerborn 1998
- Itay TiranIsraeli actorborn 1980
- Itay GoldfadenIsraeli swimmerborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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