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Isabelle vs Isaiha

American parents have registered 107,782 Isabelles since 1880, against 645 Isaihas. Isabelle is still ahead, with 1,825 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Isabelle against Isaiha, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Isabelle Isaiha

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

Isabelle 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 1988, when Isabelle had 121 and Isaiha had 7.

Side by side

  Isabelle Isaiha
Total US births 107,782645
Most in one year 4,10647
Babies in 2025 1,8255
Estimated living today 84,000630
Median age today 1622
Peak year 20071997
Best rank 79th girls1,933rd boys
Rank in 2025 166th12,008th
First recorded 18801988
Girls / boys 107,762 / 200 / 645

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 Isaihas alive today are over 22; half the Isabelles are over 16. That is 6 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: Isabelle and Isaiha.