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Isidoro vs Isis

American parents have registered 11,893 Isises since 1880, against 1,292 Isidoros. Isis is still ahead, with 128 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Isidoro against Isis, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Isidoro Isis

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 113 years in which either name was published, Isis for 57 years and Isidoro for 56 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Isidoro Isis
Total US births 1,29211,893
Most in one year 24561
Babies in 2025 under 5128
Estimated living today 85012,000
Median age today 4420
Peak year 19292005
Best rank 1,480th boys522nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,622nd
First recorded 19131901
Girls / boys 0 / 1,29211,881 / 12

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 Isidoros alive today are over 44; half the Isises are over 20. That is 24 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 Isidoro Isis
France 453,285

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: Isidoro and Isis.