Izola vs Izora

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Izola Izora

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 102 years in which either name was published, Izora for 54 years and Izola for 48 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

• 1880–1907 Izora ahead
• 1916–1948 Izola ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1949–1951 Izora ahead
• 1952–1960 Izola ahead
• 1993–2025 Izora ahead, apart from one short spell

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Izolas alive today are over 78; half the Izoras are over 64. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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