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Isidra vs Isis

American parents have registered 11,893 Isises since 1880, against 622 Isidras. Isis is still ahead, with 128 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Isidra 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 105 years in which either name was published, Isis for 59 years and Isidra for 46 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Isidra Isis
Total US births 62211,893
Most in one year 18561
Babies in 2025 9128
Estimated living today 37012,000
Median age today 4620
Peak year 19212005
Best rank 2,120th girls522nd girls
Rank in 2025 10,107th1,622nd
First recorded 19031901
Girls / boys 622 / 011,881 / 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 Isidras alive today are over 46; half the Isises are over 20. That is 26 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Isidra and Isis.