How popular is the baby name Isabella in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Isabella.
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In July of 2011, Argentinian sportswriter Walter Rotundo and his partner Victoria welcomed twin baby girls.
Their names? Mara Delfina and Dona Isabella — “Mara” and “Dona” in honor of legendary Argentinian soccer player Diego Maradona. (Rotundo chose the names to commemorate Maradona’s performance in the 1986 World Cup specifically.)
In 2021, the couple became pregnant again. This time they were having a baby boy, and when they realized he might arrive on the first anniversary of Maradona’s death, they went ahead and scheduled a caesarean section for that day.
Their son was born in Buenos Aires on November 25. His name? Diego Amado — “Diego” as a final tribute to Maradona.
A couple of weeks ago, Rachel asked a great question: “I wonder which names are the most Canadian? That is, which have the greatest popularity differentials between Canada and the US?”
In this post and the next, we’ll try to come up with lists of both the “most Canadian” and the “most American” baby names using two different methods.
First, we’ll look at the most popular names that appeared in only one set of data (either Canada or the U.S.) in 2022.
Second, we’ll look at the names that appeared in both sets of data, focusing on how proportionally popular each name was in each place. For the girl names below, I calculated the proportions by dividing each name’s U.S. usage by the total number of girls born in the U.S. last year (1,784,437) and each name’s Canadian usage by the total number of girls born Canada last year (170,916).
Top Canada-only girl names
The 2022 Canadian data included 270 girl names that were not in the U.S. data. Below are the 10+ most popular Canada-only girl names.
Number of girls (Can.)
Rank (Can.)
1. Flavie
184
141st
2. Ophelie
169
153rd
3. Romane
114
254th
4. Lea-Rose
59
484th
5. Lauralie
57
493rd
6. Sifat
47
582nd
7. Morgane
42
649th
8. Louane
41
666th
9. Leane
37
725th
10. Megane
36 (tie)
740th (tie)
11. Oceanne
36 (tie)
740th (tie)
Most of these are French, of course, and the usage was primarily in Quebec:
Flavie: 182 of 184 born in Quebec
Ophelie: 163 of 169
Romane: 114 of 114 (all)
Lea-Rose: 54 of 59
Lauralie: 55 of 57
Morgane: 41 of 42
Louane: 41 of 41 (all)
Leane: 35 of 37
Megane: 35 of 36
Oceanne: 31 of 36
The name Sifat, on the other hand, was not used in Quebec at all.
Girl names particularly popular in Canada
Now let’s look at the more than 3,340 girl names that appeared in both sets of data. Of the girl names used more frequently in Canada than in the U.S., the 10 below had the largest pro-Canada differentials. (I added the rankings for both countries as well.)
Differential (Pro-Can.)
Rank (Can.)
Rank (U.S.)
1. Florence
0.2994%
35th
622nd
2. Charlie
0.2794%
18th
123rd
3. Alice
0.2638%
11th
64th
4. Chloe
0.2573%
6th
18th
5. Livia
0.2446%
44th
890th
6. Lea
0.2338%
49th
785th
7. Sophie
0.2198%
16th
63rd
8. Clara
0.2192%
24th
110th
9. Rose
0.2153%
28th
120th
10. Romy
0.1981%
67th
1,355th
Top U.S.-only girl names
The 2022 U.S. data included 14,319 girl names that were not in the Canadian data. Below are the 10 most popular U.S.-only girl names.
Similar to the way the Canada-only list featured names used by French speakers, this U.S.-only list includes quite a few names used by Spanish speakers.
Girl names particularly popular in the U.S.
Now back to the names that both countries had in common. Of the girl names used more frequently in the U.S. than in Canada, the 10 below had the largest pro-U.S. differentials. (And, again, I added the rankings.)
Differential (Pro-U.S.)
Rank (U.S.)
Rank (Can.)
1. Camila
0.3533%
12th
163rd
2. Isabella
0.2697%
6th
22nd
3. Gianna
0.2151%
22nd
97th
4. Leilani
0.1915%
59th
684th
5. Genesis
0.1763%
65th
937th
6. Luna
0.1636%
10th
31st
7. Caroline
0.1385%
77th
529th
8. Nova
0.1315%
32nd
71st
9. Harper
0.1314%
11th
34th
10. Serenity
0.1239%
96th
513th
Of course, this analysis is necessarily a bit lopsided: Canada has fewer people than the U.S. does, and also releases a relatively limited set of baby name data.
Names used a single time in the Faroes last year include the girl names Døgg (“dew”) and Royða (“tufa“) and the boy names Bogi (“bow”) and Sproti (“sprout”).
Greenland’s top baby names of 2022, on the other hand, are still unknown at this point. Why? Because whoever edited the country’s English-language statistical booklet, Greenland in Figures 2023 [PDF], forgot to update the small section about baby names on page seven. :)
In 2021, the top baby names in Denmark were Alma and Oscar, the top baby names in the Faroes were Lea/Lív and Jónas, and the top baby names in Greenland were Lea/Luna and Aputsiaq/Marco.
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