Isidora vs Isidra
American parents have registered 637 Isidoras since 1880, against 622 Isidras. Isidora is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Isidora Isidra
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 103 years in which either name was published, Isidra for 68 years and Isidora for 35 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Isidora | Isidra | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 637 | 622 |
| Most in one year | 28 | 18 |
| Babies in 2025 | 24 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 490 | 370 |
| Median age today | 11 | 46 |
| Peak year | 2023 | 1921 |
| Best rank | 4,746th girls | 2,120th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,238th | 10,107th |
| First recorded | 1906 | 1903 |
| Girls / boys | 637 / 0 | 622 / 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 Isidras alive today are over 46; half the Isidoras are over 11. That is 35 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: Isidora and Isidra.