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Isadora

#1,265 in 2025Girls' name

Gift of Isis, through Isidora

Isadora has been given to 4,668 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,265 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 192 recorded.

Babies named Isadora, 2025

1 in 18,700

Isadora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isadora: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of Isis, through Isidora

Ancient Greek

What Isadora means

Isadora belongs to the name family reached through Isadora → Isidora. Its meaning is “gift of Isis”.

Origin, language, and formation

Isadora is used in English and Portuguese. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isidora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Isadora is pronounced /i.zaˈdɔ.ɾɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,668 girls were recorded with the name Isadora between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 192 in 2024; its best national rank was #654 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,311 in 2020 to #1,265 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,375 in 2015 to #1,265 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Isadora?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,700
177 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,080
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,265
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isadora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isadora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isadoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isadora was born before 2011 — so the typical Isadora is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,861
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (1,500).

Is Isadora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−39
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+110
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.2%
Peak was 2024 (192)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#654
1882

Spellings of Isadora

Isadora is the most-used spelling, taking 42.4% of the 11,000 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Isadora is used

Across 2016–2025, Isadora was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 10,314 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

244 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 2,273
  2. 2Florida1 in 6,667
  3. 3New York1 in 6,667
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 8,333
  5. 5Michigan1 in 9,091
  6. 6Washington1 in 9,091
  7. 7California1 in 10,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Isadora around the world

Where Isadora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #997
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2025
    #573
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #991
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Isadora

People whose public names include Isadora, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Isadora in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Isadora. Linked forms have their own page here.

IsidraIsidoraIzidoraIzydora

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Isadora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,265
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 46
Best rank ever
#654
1882
Peak year
2024
192 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,668
Count in 2025
177

Names similar to Isadora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

IsabelaIsabellIsamarElenoraPandoraLeonoraIsauraKamoraIsabeauLeanoraDevoraTziporaTeodoraEleanoraIsaiahLanoraKimoraEudoraSephoraTheodoraHonoraElioraEleonoraTheadora

Names with a curve like Isadora

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Isadora, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EmaMariellaCallaElleryLeelaMillyViviannaMaddieElaKlaraKeilyDalilah

Sibling names for Isadora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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