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Izabel vs Izael

American parents have registered 3,814 Izabels since 1880, against 1,686 Izaels. But in 2025 it was Izael that was commoner, 336 babies to 47.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Izabel Izael

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 42 years in which either name was published, Izabel for 37 years and Izael for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Izabel Izael
Total US births 3,8141,686
Most in one year 254336
Babies in 2025 47336
Estimated living today 3,8001,700
Median age today 162
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 1,037th girls767th boys
Rank in 2025 3,296th767th
First recorded 19221995
Girls / boys 3,814 / 00 / 1,686

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 Izabels alive today are over 16; half the Izaels are over 2. That is 14 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 Izabel Izael
France 6520 Izaƫl

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: Izabel and Izael.