Humanverse

Isidoro vs Isidra

American parents have registered 1,292 Isidoros since 1880, against 622 Isidras. But in 2025 it was Isidra that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Isidoro against Isidra, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Isidoro 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 110 years in which either name was published, Isidoro for 91 years and Isidra for 19 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Isidoro Isidra
Total US births 1,292622
Most in one year 2418
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 850370
Median age today 4446
Peak year 19291921
Best rank 1,480th boys2,120th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,107th
First recorded 19131903
Girls / boys 0 / 1,292622 / 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 Isidoros are over 44. That is 2 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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