Entry № 4697 · Greek origin

Isidora Isidora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-see-DOH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Gift of Isis (Saint Isidore + Isadora Duncan)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "gift of isis (saint isidore + isadora duncan)".

Isidora is from the Greek Ἰσιδώρα (Isidōra — gift of Isis) — compound of Isis (Egyptian goddess) + dōron (gift). Isidora is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek + Christian heritage.

Gift of Isis (Greek).

The name in its native script.

Ἰσιδώρα
Transliteration
Isidōra
Pronunciation
/ iː.siːˈdoʊ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Isidora is built from.

Isidora is a compound name. Its parts are dōron — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

dōron
Greek
“gift”

Where Isidora stands.

Isidora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Isidoras before her.

Real people
Isadora Duncan
American dancer + mother of modern dance + pioneering free-flowing barefoot dance + autobiography My Life 1927.
1877 – 1927
In fiction
Saint Isidore of Seville
Spanish scholar + Archbishop of Seville + Doctor of the Church + Etymologiae ~625 CE encyclopedia + canonized 1598 + proposed patron saint of the Internet by John Paul II.
c. 560 – 636 CE

Names connected to Isidora.

The number behind Isidora.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Isidora reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.