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Girl Names That Start With I

These are the 34 girl names that start with I, have reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880, and still go to girls rather than boys today. Ranked by the number of girls given each name in 2025, most common first.

All 34 names

  1. Isabella #7 10,666
  2. Isla #28 6,012
  3. Ivy #39 5,117
  4. Iris #61 3,729
  5. Isabelle #166 1,825
  6. Isabel #176 1,746
  7. Itzel #359 850
  8. Ivory #378 810
  9. Izabella #564 532
  10. Imani #579 512
  11. Irene #651 442
  12. Isabela #664 426
  13. Ila #718 390
  14. Ira #1085 222
  15. Ida #1120 209
  16. Ingrid #1120 209
  17. Inez #1396 156
  18. Isa #1710 119
  19. India #1721 118
  20. Iva #1733 117
  21. Isabell #2139 87
  22. Imogene #2514 70
  23. Ina #2607 66
  24. Iona #2645 65
  25. Irma #3167 50
  26. Ilene #6116 19
  27. Ione #7133 15
  28. Inga #9457 10
  29. Idella #11932 7
  30. Ima #11932 7
  31. Iola #11932 7
  32. Idell
  33. Iesha
  34. Infant

Girl names that start with I in the 2025 data

I is the twelfth most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 46,839 of them, 2.9% of every girl in the file. It has climbed from fifteenth place a decade ago, and its share has grown from 2.4% to 2.9%.

This list holds the 34 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Isabella, #7 with 10,666 girls in 2025. 4 of the 34 are in this year's top 100, and 31 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Together they account for 34,610 of those 46,839 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Ivory, up from #717 in 2015 to #378 in 2025. Isabelle has gone the other way, from #94 to #166. The shortest name here is Ida at 3 letters, the longest Izabella at 8.

Questions about girl names that start with I

What is the most popular girl name that starts with I?

Isabella. 10,666 girls were given the name in 2025, which put it at #7 nationally.

How many girl names start with I?

34 have reached the top 500 as a girl's name and still go to girls today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 46,839 girls born in 2025 — 2.9% of the total — were given a name starting with I.

Are girl names that start with I getting more popular?

I is gaining ground. It was fifteenth among first letters for girls a decade ago with 2.4% of births, and it is twelfth in 2025 with 2.9%.

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