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Izabel vs Izak

American parents have registered 3,814 Izabels since 1880, against 1,841 Izaks. Izabel is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Izabel Izak

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 44 years in which either name was published, Izabel for 36 years and Izak for 8 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Izabel Izak
Total US births 3,8141,841
Most in one year 254105
Babies in 2025 4723
Estimated living today 3,8001,800
Median age today 1618
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 1,037th girls1,532nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,296th4,396th
First recorded 19221984
Girls / boys 3,814 / 00 / 1,841

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 Izaks alive today are over 18; half the Izabels are over 16. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Izabel Izak
England and Wales 564251
France 65665

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: Izabel and Izak.