Izella
#13,881 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Izella has been given to 423 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #13,881 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Izella, 2025
1 in 553,000
Izella over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Izella?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,881
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Izella sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Izella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Izellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Izella was born before 1933 — so the typical Izella is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 21.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 129
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Izella 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
- +2,375
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,197
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,353
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 28.6%
- Peak was 1921 (21)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.1% average annual change
Spellings of Izella
Izella is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 38.9% against Izella's 0.05%.
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 Izella is used
Across 1910–2025, Izella was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 282,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
- 2Oklahoma1 in —
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. Izella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Izella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Izella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Izella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.