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Izaak vs Izabel

American parents have registered 3,814 Izabels since 1880, against 2,889 Izaaks. Izabel is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Izaak against Izabel, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Izaak Izabel

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 55 years in which either name was published, Izabel for 29 years and Izaak for 26 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Izaak Izabel
Total US births 2,8893,814
Most in one year 138254
Babies in 2025 4147
Estimated living today 2,8003,800
Median age today 1716
Peak year 20112007
Best rank 1,250th boys1,037th girls
Rank in 2025 2,991st3,296th
First recorded 19721922
Girls / boys 0 / 2,8893,814 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Izaak Izabel
England and Wales 856564
France 38065
Poland 599

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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