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Izan vs Izayah

American parents have registered 4,276 Izayahs since 1880, against 2,001 Izans. But in 2025 it was Izan that was commoner, 269 babies to 97.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Izan Izayah

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 32 years in which either name was published, Izayah for 26 years and Izan for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Izan Izayah
Total US births 2,0014,276
Most in one year 372267
Babies in 2025 26997
Estimated living today 2,0004,200
Median age today 314
Peak year 20242011
Best rank 712th boys816th boys
Rank in 2025 883rd1,778th
First recorded 20041994
Girls / boys 0 / 2,0017 / 4,269

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 Izayahs alive today are over 14; half the Izans are over 3. 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 Izan Izayah
France 130135
England and Wales 70106

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: Izan and Izayah.