Fun Facts About the Name Alitzel
- More than 1 thousand babies named Alitzel: U.S. records list 1,184 babies given the name Alitzel from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Alitzel Mean?
Alitzel is a given name used mainly in Mexico and in Mexican communities in the United States. No single origin is firmly documented, so the name is best described as having an uncertain etymology. The explanation most often given is that it is a modern compound of elements drawn from two different naming traditions: the opening Al-, which matches the beginning of Spanish names such as Alicia and Alma, and the ending -itzel, which matches the Mayan name Itzel.
Alicia descends from the Germanic name Adalheidis, formed from adal ("noble") and heit ("kind, sort"), and is usually rendered "noble kind." Itzel is a Mayan name whose best-known gloss in Spanish-speaking countries is "rainbow," a customary interpretation rather than a securely documented translation; it is also associated with the Maya moon goddess Ixchel.
If Alitzel is in fact a blend of those two sources, the name has no single literal meaning in one language, and the meaning of the whole remains uncertain. A less specific possibility is that Alitzel is a spelling variant of an existing Spanish name, though which one is not agreed on. Similar-looking names should not be assumed to share an origin, and no other derivation is well supported.
Alitzel Name History & Origins
Alitzel is a contemporary name. In Mexico, compound given names that join a Spanish or Spanish-sounding element to an Indigenous one - Mayan or Nahuatl - became common in the second half of the 20th century, and Alitzel follows that pattern. The opening element appears in the established Spanish names Alicia and Alma, while the ending -itzel appears in Itzel, the Mayan name that became common in Mexico in the late 20th century and is often linked to the rainbow and to the goddess Ixchel.
The name's own development is not well documented. Alitzel is found in Mexico and, through migration, in the United States, where it is usually spoken with Spanish vowels. Its tz spelling matches the way the sound is written in Yucatec Maya, where tz stands for the affricate heard in Itzel, and that spelling was carried into Spanish-language use.
How Popular is the Name Alitzel?
Alitzel recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2023. Its best rank was #875 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,382 | 158 | 0.0098% |
| 2024 | #1,149 | 209 | 0.0130% |
| 2023 | #875 | 307 | 0.0192% |
| 2022 | #2,386 | 77 | 0.0047% |
| 2021 | #3,884 | 38 | 0.0023% |
| 2020 | #4,887 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2019 | #5,807 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2018 | #6,535 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2017 | #4,925 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2016 | #8,422 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2015 | #4,860 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2014 | #5,171 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2013 | #4,008 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 2012 | #5,719 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2011 | #5,555 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2010 | #9,255 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2009 | #9,402 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #10,845 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2007 | #11,676 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #6,866 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2005 | #7,910 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2004 | #7,411 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2003 | #8,546 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2002 | #7,842 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2001 | #8,784 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2000 | #9,921 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1999 | #11,441 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #8,361 | 10 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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