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Izabella vs Izael

American parents have registered 31,149 Izabellas since 1880, against 1,686 Izaels. Izabella is still ahead, with 532 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Izabella against Izael, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Izabella 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

Izabella has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Izabella had 532 and Izael had 336.

Side by side

  Izabella Izael
Total US births 31,1491,686
Most in one year 2,254336
Babies in 2025 532336
Estimated living today 31,0001,700
Median age today 132
Peak year 20102025
Best rank 138th girls767th boys
Rank in 2025 564th767th
First recorded 19871995
Girls / boys 31,149 / 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 Izabellas alive today are over 13; half the Izaels are over 2. 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 Izabella Izael
France 8020 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: Izabella and Izael.