Isabel

Where Isabel comes from

From Spanish Isabel, from Old Occitan Elisabel, from Latin Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), from Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”). Doublet of Elizabeth.
— Wiktionary's entry for Isabel
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #161 among girls — 81 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1931
    Isabel Martínez de Perón born
    first female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
  3. 1942
    Isabel Allende born
    Chilean writer
  4. 2003
    Peak, #83
    3,853 babies named Isabel — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #157.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Isabel Allende · Chilean writer, born 1942
  • Isabel Martínez de Perón · first female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976, born 1931
  • Isabel of Aragon · queen consort of Portugal, 1470–1498
  • Isabel Lucas · Australian actress and model, born 1985
  • Isabel Coixet · Spanish film director and screenwriter, born 1960

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.