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Izabella vs Izan

American parents have registered 31,149 Izabellas since 1880, against 2,001 Izans. Izabella is still ahead, with 532 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Izabella against Izan, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Izabella Izan

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

Izabella has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Izabella had 608 and Izan had 372.

Side by side

  Izabella Izan
Total US births 31,1492,001
Most in one year 2,254372
Babies in 2025 532269
Estimated living today 31,0002,000
Median age today 133
Peak year 20102024
Best rank 138th girls712th boys
Rank in 2025 564th883rd
First recorded 19872004
Girls / boys 31,149 / 00 / 2,001

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 Izabellas alive today are over 13; half the Izans are over 3. That is 10 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 Izabella Izan
Poland 2,7683
England and Wales 2,48770
France 80130

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: Izabella and Izan.