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Isela

#1,935 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly my God is an oath, through Isabel

Isela has been given to 5,925 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #1,935 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 196 recorded.

Babies named Isela, 2025

1 in 33,200

Isela over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isela: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly my God is an oath, through Isabel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isela means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Isela is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isabel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Isela is pronounced /iˈsela/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,925 girls were recorded with the name Isela between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 196 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,016 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,874 in 2020 to #1,935 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,533 in 2015 to #1,935 in 2025.

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 Isela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,200
100 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,935
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,980 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isela 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 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 22,980 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iselas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isela was born before 1998 — so the typical Isela is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,824
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Choose a decade

2000s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (1,312).

Is Isela 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
−75
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−61
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+598
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.0%
Peak was 1998 (196)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,016
1998

Spellings of Isela

Isela is not the most common spelling — Isla is, with 18.1% against Isela's 1.8%.

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 Isela is used

Across 2016–2025, Isela was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 9,547 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 4,000
  2. 2California1 in 7,143
  3. 3Texas1 in 7,143
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 11,111
  5. 5Washington1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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.

Notable people named Isela

People whose public names include Isela, 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.

Isela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,935
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 61
Best rank ever
#1,016
1998
Peak year
1998
196 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,925
Count in 2025
100

Names similar to Isela

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

KaelaLeelaJaelaAdelaGiselaArielaEstelaAnelaLaelaNeelaKeelaMarcelaRafaelaManuelaMarielaTamelaElaSelaAkelaIsabelaMakaelaShielaMeelaShaela

Names with a curve like Isela

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

AnnalisaIlanaMarcelaDanyaShoshanaStormyAdinaStarMirellaSerinaShiraShae

Sibling names for Isela

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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