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Idalia vs Idalis

American parents have registered 3,338 Idalias since 1880, against 908 Idalises. Idalia is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Idalia against Idalis, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Idalia Idalis

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Idalia for 101 years and Idalis for 6 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Idalia Idalis
Total US births 3,338908
Most in one year 160138
Babies in 2025 8613
Estimated living today 3,000900
Median age today 3026
Peak year 20231996
Best rank 1,402nd girls1,261st girls
Rank in 2025 2,153rd7,885th
First recorded 18891983
Girls / boys 3,338 / 0908 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Idalias alive today are over 30; half the Idalises are over 26. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Idalia and Idalis.