Isadora
Isadora is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Gift of Isis.
What Isadora means
Gift of Isis.
Isadora sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Isadora comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Isadora is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Isadora?
Isadora sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Isadora
We group Isadora under Gift and the long-established classics — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Isadora
These share Isadora's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Dorothy — Gift of God.
- Pandora — All-gifted.
- Theodore — Gift of God.
- Cora — Maiden.
- Irene — Peace.
- Margaret — Pearl.
- Penelope — Weaver; faithful.
- Sophia — Wisdom.
- Agnes — Pure and holy.
- Ariadne — Most holy and pure.
- Catherine — Pure.
- Eudora — Good gift.