Itachi
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ee-TAH-chee
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Itachi is a boys' name of Japanese origin, meaning “weasel”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Itachi mean?
Japanese: Japanese word itachi
“weasel”
The Japanese word for weasel; Itachi Uchiha is a major character in the Naruto manga and anime.
Is Itachi a girl's or a boy's name?
Itachi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Itachi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Itachi, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 2019.
2025 had the fewest boys named Itachi since it first appeared, in 2019.
Half of all the boys named Itachi in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Itachi in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,465 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
Names like Itachi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Obi Ayomide Om Omari Nolawi Akari Tadeo Kwame Kobe Kamazi Atom Sekani
More Japanese names
Kaizen Raiden Ren Kenzo Ronin Kyomi Akira Yuna Emi Kiyomi Kairi Miya Kenji Reo Jiraiya Aizen
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Itachi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/itachi, updated 20 October 2026.