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Izael vs Izaiah

American parents have registered 14,909 Izaiahs since 1880, against 1,686 Izaels. Izaiah is still ahead, with 439 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Izael against Izaiah, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Izael Izaiah

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

Izaiah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1984 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Izael had 336 and Izaiah had 439.

Side by side

  Izael Izaiah
Total US births 1,68614,909
Most in one year 336744
Babies in 2025 336439
Estimated living today 1,70015,000
Median age today 213
Peak year 20252009
Best rank 767th boys400th boys
Rank in 2025 767th635th
First recorded 19951984
Girls / boys 0 / 1,68610 / 14,899

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 Izaiahs alive today are over 13; half the Izaels are over 2. That is 11 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 Izael Izaiah
France 20 Izaël105 Izaïah

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: Izael and Izaiah.