Isidor

Where Isidor comes from

Isidor hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1854
    Isidor Gunsberg born
    Hungarian-born British chess player
  2. 1883
    First appearance
    #799 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #765
    7 babies named Isidor — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1898
    Isidor Isaac Rabi born
    American physicist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Isidor Isaac Rabi · American physicist, 1898–1988
  • Isidor Gunsberg · Hungarian-born British chess player, 1854–1930
  • Isidor Straus · retailing magnate victim of the Titanic sinking, 1845–1912
  • Isidor Kaufmann · Hungarian artist, 1853–1921
  • Isidor Niflot · Olympic wrestler, 1881–1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.