Isidore
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from Ancient Greek
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɪzɪˌdɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Isidore is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 418K
- TGTogo≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English form (via Old French and Latin) of the Greek name Isid6ros, composed of the name'of the goddess Isis (of Egyptian origin) + Greek doron ‘gift’. In spite of its pagan connotations the name was a
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Isidore is read(measured from records)
Isidore is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French29%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isidore counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #455 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Isidore | 21 |
| TG Togo | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1 | — | 13 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 4 | Isidore | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Isidore | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 6.3K | Isidore | 195 |
| BJ Benin | #159 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Isidore | 15 |
| US United States | — | 796 | 1 in 418K | 772 | Isidore | 105 |
| GF French Guiana | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Isidore is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English form (via Old French and Latin) of the Greek name Isid6ros, composed of the name'of the goddess Isis (of Egyptian origin) + Greek doron ‘gift’. In spite of its pagan connotations the name was a
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
From Greek Isid6ros ‘gift of Isis’. See main dictionary. J
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaireb. 1805FRFrench zoologist (1805-1861)
- Isidore Pilsb. 1813FRFrench painter (1815–1875)
- Comte de Lautréamontb. 1846UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)
- Yip Harburgb. 1896USnot in their usual nameAmerican lyricist (1896–1981)
- Pierre Mendès Franceb. 1907FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (1907-1982)
- Isidore Isoub. 1925RORomanian-born French poet, experimental filmmaker, critic & visual artist (1925–2007)
- Guy Béartb. 1930FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer (1930-2015)
- Thomas Sankarab. 1949BFnot in their usual namePresident of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
- Isidore Mvoubab. 1954CGPrime Minister of the Republic of the Congo
- Bertrand Traoréb. 1995BFnot in their usual nameBurkinabé association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 673 | #35,883 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 599 | #37,229 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 482 | #42,363 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 138 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Isidore come from?
- English form (via Old French and Latin) of the Greek name Isid6ros, composed of the name'of the goddess Isis (of Egyptian origin) + Greek doron ‘gift’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Isidore a male or female name?
- Isidore is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Isidore?
- In the etymology graph, Isidoro, Isis and Isadore are forms of the same name in other languages; Izzy is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Isidore mean?
- In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- How do you pronounce Isidore?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɪzɪˌdɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Isidore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Isidore in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isidore.
- How common is the name Isidore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 796 people named Isidore in 2020, about 1 in 418 thousand residents.
- How common is Isidore compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Isidore is the 455th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isidoreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Isidore” — the 455th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.