Isela vs Iselis
American parents have registered 5,925 Iselas since 1880, against 23 Iselises. Isela is still ahead, with 100 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Isela Iselis
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
Isela has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1926 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2016, when Isela had 85 and Iselis had 15.
Side by side
| Isela | Iselis | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,925 | 23 |
| Most in one year | 196 | 15 |
| Babies in 2025 | 100 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 5,700 | 20 |
| Median age today | 27 | 9 |
| Peak year | 1998 | 2016 |
| Best rank | 1,015th girls | 7,602nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,927th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1926 | 2016 |
| Girls / boys | 5,925 / 0 | 23 / 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 Iselas alive today are over 27; half the Iselises are over 9. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Isela and Iselis.