Zabelle

Girls' name

My God is an oath, through Isabella

Zabelle has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1922, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Zabelle, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zabelle: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Isabella

Armenian

What Zabelle means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Zabelle is used in English. Its origins include Armenian.

Zabelle comes through Armenian Զապել.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isabella and Isabel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Zabelle between 1917 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1922; its best national rank was #5,000 in 1922.

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 Zabelle?

Zabelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zabelle 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zabelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zabelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zabelle was born before 2009 — so the typical Zabelle is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 57.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 15; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Zabelle 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 1922 (6)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,000; 1922

Spellings of Zabelle

Zabelle is not the most common spelling — Isabelle is, with 40.0% against Zabelle's <0.01%.

Isabelle40.0%107,762
Janelle21.1%56,881
Izabella11.6%31,149
Belle7.1%19,227
Anabelle3.3%8,919
Danelle2.6%7,109
Maybelle2.4%6,366
Adelle2.0%5,492

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.

Zabelle 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: #5,000; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 6 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 26
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Zabelle

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

Rhyelle Astelle Nyielle Zenelle Naielle Orielle Niyelle Zayelle Louelle Layelle Zabely Urielle Ivelle Narielle Brayelle Irielle Sorelle Raielle Xyelle Cybelle Yarielle Narelle Madelle Dinelle

Sibling names for Zabelle

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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