Fun Facts About the Name Idaly
- 993 babies named Idaly: U.S. records list 993 babies given the name Idaly from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Idaly Mean?
Idaly is a feminine name used mainly in Spanish-speaking communities, where it is a spelling variant of Idalia and Idalis. Idalia goes back to the Latin Idalia, a poetic epithet of Venus (the Greek Aphrodite), formed from the Greek place name Idalion (Ἰδάλιον), a town on Cyprus that had a sanctuary of Aphrodite. The town name is not Greek and has no agreed meaning, so the literal sense of the name is unknown. A common popular explanation gives the meaning as "behold the sun," connecting it to Greek words for seeing and the sun, but this is a later interpretation rather than a documented etymology. The final -y in Idaly is a Spanish-language spelling convention and does not change the name's source.
Idaly Name History & Origins
Latin poets used Idalia both as a name for the Cypriot region of Idalion and as an epithet of Venus, and the word passed into European languages as a literary and occasional personal name. The English novelist Ouida published a novel titled Idalia in 1867. In the Spanish-speaking world, Idalia has been used as a woman's name, and shorter forms such as Idalis and Idalys grew up beside it. Idaly is another spelling within that group, and it fits a pattern common in Spanish-American naming in which a final -i sound is written with y, as in Aracely (from Araceli) or Noemy (from Noemí). Idaly therefore belongs to the same line of development as Idalia rather than to an independent origin, and its use as a separate spelling is recent.
How Popular is the Name Idaly?
Idaly has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2003. Its best rank was #2,211 in 2003.
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 | #10,414 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #8,106 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2023 | #8,655 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2022 | #7,409 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2021 | #6,034 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2020 | #6,439 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2019 | #5,207 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2018 | #7,217 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #8,014 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #6,752 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2015 | #5,901 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2014 | #6,821 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2013 | #6,337 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2012 | #5,613 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2011 | #4,395 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 2010 | #3,589 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 2009 | #3,429 | 48 | 0.0026% |
| 2008 | #3,033 | 57 | 0.0030% |
| 2007 | #3,181 | 54 | 0.0028% |
| 2006 | #2,426 | 77 | 0.0041% |
| 2005 | #2,485 | 70 | 0.0038% |
| 2004 | #2,866 | 56 | 0.0030% |
| 2003 | #2,211 | 78 | 0.0043% |
| 2002 | #2,533 | 62 | 0.0035% |
| 2001 | #3,217 | 43 | 0.0024% |
| 2000 | #5,786 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 1999 | #7,897 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #11,590 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #8,578 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #12,396 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #4,575 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 1994 | #8,362 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1993 | #7,703 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1992 | #9,808 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #8,852 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #11,913 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1989 | #10,086 | 7 | 0.0004% |
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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