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Idella vs Idelle

American parents have registered 6,554 Idellas since 1880, against 750 Idelles. Idella is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Idella against Idelle, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Idella Idelle

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

Idella has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Idella had 12 and Idelle had 5.

Side by side

  Idella Idelle
Total US births 6,554750
Most in one year 16836
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 1,700150
Median age today 7175
Peak year 19211921
Best rank 547th girls1,298th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 18801895
Girls / boys 6,554 / 0750 / 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 Idelles alive today are over 75; half the Idellas are over 71. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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