Isidor

Where Isidor comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Isidor.

Isidor through the years
  1. 1854
    Isidor Gunsberg born
    Hungarian-born British chess player
  2. 1883
    First appearance
    #799 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #765
    7 babies named Isidor, its best rank.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1898
    Isidor Isaac Rabi born
    American physicist
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.