Isabela

#664 for girls in 2025, 426 births

Peak · girls
2004 · 695 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
12,698
since 1982

Isabela over time

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Rank among girls' names. Isabela has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202005peak #442, 2004girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#664426
2024#644456
2023#659446
2022#587510
2021#836330
2020#835328
2019#776357
2018#816332
2017#812336
2016#813351
2015#763370
2014#721389
2013#670427
2012#619462
2011#665426
2010#571511
2009#493623
2008#535575
2007#504634
2006#467676
2005#534539
2004#442695
2003#483610
2002#632403
2001#741322
2000#850259
1999#939223
1998#1,183157
1997#1,442115
1996#1,79282
1995#1,86375
1994#2,23259
1993#2,63946
1992#3,68029
1991#3,72228
1990#3,36432
1989#4,67019
1988#10,3866
1987#7,9878
1986
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1984#8,1537
1983#8,0477
1982#9,2376
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First appearance
1982

The first year at least five girls were named Isabela! It came in at #9,237, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Isabela
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 20 spots since 2024 (#644#664)
  • 171 spots since 2020 (#835#664)
  • 99 spots since 2015 (#763#664)
  • Biggest jump: 249 spots in 2022 (#836#587)
  • Biggest drop: 94 spots in 2011 (#571#665)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1982
  • Peaked 2004 at #442 (695 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 27 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,642
  • Highest: 1 in 2,642 girls born in 2004 were named Isabela (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,773 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 42.0% of all girls named Isabela (5,336) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s59#4,670 (1989)#8,255
1990s846#939 (1999)#2,286
2000s5,336#442 (2004)#568
2010s3,961#571 (2010)#723
2020s2,496#587 (2022)#704

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Isabela in 2005

girls
#534
539 births · 1 in 3,428 girls

Top girls' names in 2005

  1. #1Emily23,952
  2. #2Emma20,362
  3. #3Madison19,578
  4. #4Abigail15,756
  5. #5Olivia15,700
  6. #6Isabella15,197
  7. #7Hannah14,854
  8. #8Samantha13,642
  9. #9Ava13,606
  10. #10Ashley13,276
  11. #534Isabela539
More about 2005

girls

1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 3,428 of them was named Isabela, which outranked 97.2% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Isabela
  1. #531Dominique543
  2. #532Willow542
  3. #533Elisa541
  4. #534Isabela539
  5. #534Kristin539
  6. #536Justice538
  7. #536London538
  8. #538Marlene537

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2004
Risers
  1. 6,271Mikalah#7,077#806
  2. 2,724Yuridia#3,689#965
  3. 2,236Naima#3,127#891
  4. 1,924Karol#2,742#818
  5. 1,125Karma#1,972#847
Fallers
  1. 397Rhea#908#1,305
  2. 360Laisha#789#1,149
  3. 334Ashtyn#956#1,290
  4. 285Hunter#742#1,027
  5. 282Angeles#973#1,255

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2005