Izamar
Feminine
Izamar is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 638 girls against 7 boys since 1880.
Yucatán kept its Maya place names when most of Mexico did not. Izamal, Uxmal, Chichén Itzá, Valladolid excepted — the peninsula's map is still substantially Maya, and Izamal is a real city whose name has a documented Maya origin.
How old is the name Izamar?
Izamar first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Izamar alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 600 people named Izamar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Izamar most popular?
Izamar peaked in 1990, reaching #1445 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 6,440 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Izamar
The Yucatán is unusual in Mexico for how much of its indigenous toponymy survived Spanish colonization intact. Chichén Itzá is the mouth of the well of the Itzá; Uxmal is variously read as thrice-built; Izamal was a major Maya center and is built partly on and out of its own pyramids, with a Franciscan monastery raised on a Maya platform in the 1560s. Yucatec Maya is still spoken by around three-quarters of a million people, which is a large part of why the names held. That makes it worth separating two things: the place names are genuinely Maya and well studied, while modern Mexican given names that resemble them are usually not, and attaching a Maya meaning to Izamar without evidence would misrepresent both. The name peaks in 1990.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented meaning for the given name. Izamar is a modern Mexican formation, possibly built on the place name Izamal or as a blend on Iza- with -mar, the Spanish word for sea. Izamal itself is generally connected to Itzamná, a Maya creator deity, though the derivation is debated. No line of descent from the place name to the personal name is documented.
Pronouncing Izamar
ee-sah-MAR
Three syllables, stress on the last, with a tapped r. In Spain the z is a th sound; in Mexico and the rest of Latin America it is an s.
Nicknames for Izamar
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 1990108 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1445reached in 1990
- Change vs 2024
- +30.0%13 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Izamar in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Itzamar in Spanish — spelling variant
- Izamary in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Izamars among us
people named Izamar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Izamar
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Izamar
- #7885
- Izamar on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Izamar went to 13 girls in 2025, but Isamar is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 900th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,985 places above the chart.
- Isamar47
- Izamar13
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 123,636 for Izamar itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Danni test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Izamar's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Danni climbed just as high around 1955, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Danni's path sketches the road Izamar is walking now.
Izamar sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Izamar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Izamar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Iza and Mar are natural short forms.
- It is read correctly by Spanish speakers on sight.
- The final stress gives it a distinctive rhythm.
- There is no established meaning, and Maya glosses offered are unsupported.
- The z is pronounced differently in Spain and Latin America.
- English speakers move the stress forward.
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Frequently asked
- How many Izamars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Izamar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Izamar?
- Izamar is one of 2 recorded spellings. Isamar is the more common one — 47 births in 2025 against 13 for Izamar.
- How popular is the name Izamar in 2025?
- Izamar ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Izamar?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Izamar — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Izamar with classmates?
- Izamar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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