Itzel

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Itzel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico. In Panama it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PAPanama1 in 512◐
  • MXMexico1 in 1.6K
  • ECEcuador1 in 4.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈21K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
258 ●

151K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.9K ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Itzel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#247194,331122K rec.—226Itzel199
US United States—16,88811K rec.1 in 20K17KItzel258
PA Panama#713,99113K rec.—26Itzel49
AR Argentina—4,4802K rec.—141Itzel33
EC Ecuador—3,471△10 rec.1 in 4.9K3.5KItzel15
PE Peru—2,985479 rec.——Itzel27
SV El Salvador—674189 rec.——Itzel13
CO Colombia—64586 rec.——Itzel27
ES Spain—558△137 rec.1 in 90K558Itzel50
CR Costa Rica#979235504 rec.1 in 22K235Itzel23
ID Indonesia—804 rec.——Itzel4
GB United Kingdom—58174 rec.—listedItzel19

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish237K90%
  • English14K5%
  • Lao2.6K1%
  • 1.4K1%
  • Portuguese6791%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish236,97890%
English13,7005%
Lao2,5751%
1,3821%
Portuguese6791%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Itzel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18K records spelled Itzel11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ïtzèl, Ítzel, Itzël, Itzél, Ìtzèl

  • Catalan given name1.4K records spelled Itzel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Itzël

  • Ukrainian given name678 records spelled Itzel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Ицель

  • Italian given name132 records spelled Itzel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Ïtzël

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Itzel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In yol, itself

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, Laminador . v. ijele. Itzelak eta urtzalleak . Murga EE 1895b, 518. Olajaun eta itzel-urtzallerentzat . Ib. 518.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02505007501K19801990200020102020976 · 2005

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Itzel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1977–2025
Yearrecords
19775
19816
19828
198312
19848
19858
198626
198721
198832
198949
199084
199184
1992100
1993224
1994489
1995343
1996307
1997301
1998290
1999322
2000430
2001579
2002659
2003694
2004879
2005976
2006857
2007892
2008846
2009789
2010764
2011772
2012731
2013700
2014753
2015652
2016656
2017636
2018536
2019575
2020518
2021549
2022636
2023840
2024828
2025850

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Laura Itzel Castillo, b. 1957Itzel Guevara del Angel, b. 1976Itzel Ríos de la Mora, b. 1978Itzel Reza, b. 1979Itzel Manjarrez, b. 1990Itzel González, b. 1994Itzel Nayeli García Montaño, b. 1995Itzel Cruz, b. 1998Itzel Vargas, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 44 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Itzel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202017K#1,769
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—3.5K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.5K#442
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2005976—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2007892—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025850—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—558#4,228
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024452—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—446#2,311
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—235#1,327
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—226#404
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024141#629

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 315 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Itzel?
We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Itzel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Itzel have the most bearers?
Itzel is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled itzel.
How common is Itzel compared with other names?
In Mexico, Itzel is the 247th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
Is Itzel a male or female name?
Itzel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Itzel” — the 247th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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