Itzel comes from the Mayan goddess Ix Chel — pronounced "Ish-Chel," the goddess of the moon, water, weaving, and childbirth. The Spanish spelling Itzel preserves the sound. The name's meaning is sometimes given as "rainbow lady" or "dew of heaven."
Itzel is widely used across Mexico and Central America, particularly among families honoring Indigenous heritage. In the U.S. it entered the top 1000 in 1993.
Itzel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Itzel reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.