{"id":11671,"date":"2015-10-12T07:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2015-10-12T07:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:21:31","slug":"baby-name-to-discuss-isadora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/10\/12\/baby-name-to-discuss-isadora\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Name to Discuss: Isadora"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m due in a couple months and am curious about the name Isadora. My husband and I love it as a fresh take on the popular Isabelle (he loves Isabelle, me not so much). I like that it’s unique (fairly uncommon) yet familiar and easy to pronounce.<\/p>\n

Concerns:
\n\u2022 We would likely use the nickname Izzie. Do you think she will be one of many because of all the Isabella\/Isabelle’s?
\n\u2022 Will she get “is a door” jokes. Not a deal breaker, but could get really annoying. We’ve mentioned the name to a few people and they’ve gone there. “When is a door not a door” “when it’s ajar”, etc…
\n\u2022 too close an association with the tragic death of Isadora Duncan? Or is that long enough ago that this generation will not have that association?
\nthanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1. I do think she will find herself among Isabella-Izzies, just as Adelines find themselves among Addison-Addies. But many Isabelles\/Isabellas go by Bella, or by the full versions of their names. If the nickname Izzie bothers her for its popularity or for the way some people will mistakenly assume her full name is Isabella, she can go by a different nickname or by Isadora. This seems like a good issue to consider ahead of time, in case you think it will bother you too much to want to use the name, but not something that has to be a deal-breaker.<\/p>\n

2. I do think some people will make the door joke. I think they will stop when her name is more familiar to them. It seems unlikely that the same people would make the joke over and over again, since it isn’t very funny. But each person who is inclined toward that sort of humor will make the joke once. Again, I’d say good to consider it ahead of time to be prepared for it, but it doesn’t have to rule out the name.<\/p>\n

3. I had to look up Isadora Duncan<\/a>. The name was familiar to me, but without a tragic-death association. Since she died in 1927, I don’t think there’s any “too soon” danger here. The main issue is that the name is so unusual; I’d say we don’t, for example, need to worry about Natalie Wood<\/a>‘s tragic death when we use the much more common name Natalie. I am hoping that in the comments section we’ll get a good idea of whether other people leap right to that association or not—and, if they do, whether they think it means the name shouldn’t be used.<\/p>\n

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I’m encouraged by the increasing number of baby girls named Isadora in the United States:<\/p>\n

1989: 12
\n1994: 24
\n1999: 31
\n2004: 74
\n2009: 119
\n2014: 167<\/p>\n

It’s still in no way a common name, but the increasing usage will, I think, reduce the second two issues you raise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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