Girl · Guaraní place name, through Spanish
Itatí
Say it: ee-tah-TEE
Meaning
After the Virgen de Itatí of Corrientes, Argentina, named after the town of Itatí; the place name is Guaraní, usually explained as ita 'stone' and morotĩ or tĩ 'white'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A regional Marian name of northeastern Argentina and Paraguay, from a Guaraní-language place name rather than a pre-colonial personal name.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 396 babies given this name since 1994
- At its height in 2000, about 1 in 49,100 girls
- 5 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Itati
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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