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Italia
Say it: ee-TAH-lyah
Meaning
From Italia, the name of the country.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
It came into use as a patriotic name in the era of Italian unification.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 2,623 babies given this name since 1911
- At its height in 2014, about 1 in 14,600 girls
- 68 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Italia Almirante Manzini, silent-film actress
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Parish baptism registers
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.