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Izabelle vs Izan

American parents have registered 4,603 Izabelles since 1880, against 2,001 Izans. But in 2025 it was Izan that was commoner, 269 babies to 69.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Izabelle against Izan, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Izabelle 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

Of the 34 years in which either name was published, Izabelle for 28 years and Izan for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Izabelle Izan
Total US births 4,6032,001
Most in one year 281372
Babies in 2025 69269
Estimated living today 4,6002,000
Median age today 153
Peak year 20082024
Best rank 957th girls712th boys
Rank in 2025 2,542nd883rd
First recorded 19912004
Girls / boys 4,603 / 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 Izabelles alive today are over 15; half the Izans are over 3. That is 12 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 Izabelle Izan
England and Wales 91770
France 25130

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: Izabelle and Izan.