Isabele

Girls' name

Possibly my God is an oath, through Isabel

Isabele has been given to 181 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Isabele, 2023

1 in 474,000

Isabele over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isabele: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly my God is an oath, through Isabel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isabele means

Isabele belongs to the name family reached through Isabele → Isabel. Its meaning is “my God is an oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Isabele is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isabel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Isabele is pronounced /i.zaˈbɛ.li/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 181 girls were recorded with the name Isabele between 1919 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2003; its best national rank was #4,500 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Isabele?

Isabele had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 229,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 328,234 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Isabele 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 2023 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 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isabele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isabeles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isabele was born before 2005 — so the typical Isabele is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 61.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 88.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 175; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Isabele 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2003 (16)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,500; 1919

Spellings of Isabele

Isabele is not the most common spelling — Isabella is, with 59.2% against Isabele's 0.03%.

Isabella59.2%417,001
Isabel18.8%132,150
Isabelle15.3%107,762
Isabell2.2%15,274
Isabela1.8%12,698
Izabelle0.65%4,603
Izabel0.54%3,814
Isobel0.54%3,802

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.

Isabele around the world

Where Isabele 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
2005–2022
#3,149
in 2022
France
1970–1981
#3,200
in 1981

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Isabele by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,500; 1919
Peak year: 2003; 16 that year
First recorded: 1919
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 181
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Isabele

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

Isabeau Isabelly Isamara Isadore Isatou Isaiah Isayana Steele Chanele Lachele Isata Isana Isatu Isaliyah Isaly Isamari Isaura Isamary Isaac Marcele Danyele Ayodele Ariele Machele

Sibling names for Isabele

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

For a sister

Shreya Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Kayli Sydnee

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Keven Kadin Estevan Dallin Keon Zakary

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