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Isabela

#664 in 2025Girls' name

Latinate form of Isabel

Isabela has been given to 12,698 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #664 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 695 recorded.

Babies named Isabela, 2025

1 in 7,780

Isabela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isabela: meaning, origin, and history

Latinate form of Isabel

Spanish

What Isabela means

Isabela is a latinate form of Isabel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Isabela → Isabel. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in English with the source elements Elishéva.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Spanish Isabela. The province is named after Isabella II of Spain. Doublet of Isabelle.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Isabela (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Isabela is used in English, Cebuano, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Isabela comes through Spanish Isabela.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isabel and Isabelle.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Isabela is pronounced /ʔɪ.sɐˈbɛ.lɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,698 girls were recorded with the name Isabela between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 695 in 2004; its best national rank was #442 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #835 in 2020 to #664 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #764 in 2015 to #664 in 2025.

How common is Isabela?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,780
426 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,770
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#664
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,395 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isabela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,395 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isabela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isabelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isabela was born before 2010 — so the typical Isabela is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,698
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (5,336).

Is Isabela rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−20
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+171
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+100
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.3%
Peak was 2004 (695)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#442
2004

Spellings of Isabela

Isabela is not the most common spelling — Isabella is, with 56.3% against Isabela's 1.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Isabela is used

Across 2016–2025, Isabela was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 2,083 girls, against 1 in 3,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 33,333).

348 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 2,083
  2. 2Florida1 in 2,128
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 2,273
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 2,500
  5. 5California1 in 2,857
  6. 6Texas1 in 2,857
  7. 7Illinois1 in 3,030
  8. 8Arizona1 in 3,448

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Isabela is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 59% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Isabela around the world

Where Isabela ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #3,001
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #913
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Isabela

People whose public names include Isabela, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Isabela in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Isabela. Linked forms have their own page here.

IsabelIsabeloIzabelaIsabellaIsabelleIzabellaIsabetaLisabelaÍsabella

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Isabela by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#664
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 171
Best rank ever
#442
2004
Peak year
2004
695 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,698
Count in 2025
426

Names similar to Isabela

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

IsabellIsadoraMarielaManuelaMicaelaMarcelaMikaelaCarmelaMaricelaMariselaGracielaEstelaIsamarRafaelaMakaelaAdelaIsauraIsabelleDanielaMichelaIsabelGiselaIzabelaAriela

Names with a curve like Isabela

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Isabela, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LaneyAliyaArelyKaiyaKayaAmaniAiyanaTaliyahAnahiGianaItzelJaylin

Sibling names for Isabela

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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