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Izaiah vs Izan

American parents have registered 14,909 Izaiahs since 1880, against 2,001 Izans. Izaiah is still ahead, with 439 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Izaiah 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

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 2024, when Izaiah had 468 and Izan had 372.

Side by side

  Izaiah Izan
Total US births 14,9092,001
Most in one year 744372
Babies in 2025 439269
Estimated living today 15,0002,000
Median age today 133
Peak year 20092024
Best rank 400th boys712th boys
Rank in 2025 635th883rd
First recorded 19842004
Girls / boys 10 / 14,8990 / 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 Izaiahs 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 Izaiah Izan
England and Wales 41970
France 105 Izaïah130

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: Izaiah and Izan.