Isabell
#2,139 for girls in 2025, 87 births · Last seen for boys in 1929 at #3,959
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1903 · 99 births
- Debut · girls
- 22 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,274since 1880
Isabell over time
Rank among girls' names. Isabell has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,139 | 87 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,282 | 81 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,336 | 78 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,885 | 107 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,554 | 135 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,668 | 123 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,773 | 115 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,506 | 145 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,482 | 150 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,446 | 159 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,287 | 187 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,228 | 199 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,144 | 210 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,086 | 228 | — | |
| 2011 | #981 | 261 | — | |
| 2010 | #827 | 324 | — | |
| 2009 | #827 | 341 | — | |
| 2008 | #796 | 366 | — | |
| 2007 | #794 | 363 | — | |
| 2006 | #723 | 388 | — | |
| 2005 | #894 | 281 | — | |
| 2004 | #855 | 287 | — | |
| 2003 | #914 | 260 | — | |
| 2002 | #919 | 243 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,096 | 193 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,225 | 162 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,130 | 174 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,458 | 117 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,682 | 93 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,357 | 33 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,098 | 37 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,407 | 25 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,803 | 42 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,683 | 46 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,757 | 42 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,150 | 30 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,953 | 34 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,951 | 33 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,606 | 44 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,531 | 49 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,378 | 57 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,292 | 61 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,367 | 54 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,213 | 63 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,297 | 54 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,203 | 60 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,171 | 62 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,088 | 68 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,197 | 57 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,008 | 77 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,121 | 57 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,100 | 51 | — | |
| 1944 | #953 | 66 | — | |
| 1943 | #902 | 74 | — | |
| 1942 | #902 | 75 | — | |
| 1941 | #838 | 75 | — | |
| 1940 | #808 | 77 | — | |
| 1939 | #697 | 96 | — | |
| 1938 | #737 | 87 | — | |
| 1937 | #700 | 95 | — | |
| 1936 | #638 | 106 | — | |
| 1935 | #654 | 101 | — | |
| 1934 | #680 | 96 | — | |
| 1933 | #597 | 117 | — | |
| 1932 | #552 | 139 | — | |
| 1931 | #589 | 126 | — | |
| 1930 | #513 | 171 | — | |
| 1929 | #501 | 181 | #3,959 | 5 |
| 1928 | #531 | 172 | — | |
| 1927 | #484 | 208 | — | |
| 1926 | #463 | 221 | — | |
| 1925 | #450 | 237 | — | |
| 1924 | #412 | 282 | — | |
| 1923 | #445 | 234 | — | |
| 1922 | #445 | 233 | — | |
| 1921 | #410 | 271 | — | |
| 1920 | #423 | 249 | — | |
| 1919 | #391 | 274 | — | |
| 1918 | #391 | 281 | — | |
| 1917 | #368 | 293 | — | |
| 1916 | #422 | 220 | — | |
| 1915 | #384 | 249 | — | |
| 1914 | #364 | 210 | — | |
| 1913 | #395 | 151 | — | |
| 1912 | #364 | 160 | — | |
| 1911 | #367 | 120 | — | |
| 1910 | #350 | 129 | — | |
| 1909 | #352 | 105 | — | |
| 1908 | #353 | 104 | — | |
| 1907 | #375 | 88 | — | |
| 1906 | #368 | 84 | — | |
| 1905 | #339 | 100 | — | |
| 1904 | #385 | 73 | — | |
| 1903 | #313 | 99 | — | |
| 1902 | #354 | 81 | — | |
| 1901 | #361 | 70 | — | |
| 1900 | #349 | 92 | — | |
| 1899 | #348 | 73 | — | |
| 1898 | #334 | 87 | — | |
| 1897 | #367 | 64 | — | |
| 1896 | #373 | 58 | — | |
| 1895 | #357 | 61 | — | |
| 1894 | #359 | 60 | — | |
| 1893 | #360 | 56 | — | |
| 1892 | #365 | 53 | — | |
| 1891 | #387 | 41 | — | |
| 1890 | #358 | 51 | — | |
| 1889 | #321 | 58 | — | |
| 1888 | #349 | 46 | — | |
| 1887 | #364 | 35 | — | |
| 1886 | #332 | 41 | — | |
| 1885 | #324 | 39 | — | |
| 1884 | #331 | 35 | — | |
| 1883 | #366 | 25 | — | |
| 1882 | #377 | 22 | — | |
| 1881 | #346 | 22 | — | |
| 1880 | #342 | 22 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Isabell was already there! It came in at #342, and was given to 22 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Isabell is popular in 1906
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Isabell
- 143 spots since 2024 (#2,282 → #2,139)
- 471 spots since 2020 (#1,668 → #2,139)
- 852 spots since 2015 (#1,287 → #2,139)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 2002 (#1,096 → #919)
- Biggest drop: 154 spots in 2011 (#827 → #981)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1903 at #313 (99 births)
- Births halved by 1957, 54 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 75 yrs · run 1880–1944
- Highest: 1 in 2,646 girls born in 1903 were named Isabell (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,474 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 18.9% of all girls named Isabell (2,884) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 345 | #321 (1889) | #345 |
| 1890s | 604 | #334 (1898) | #361 |
| 1900s | 896 | #313 (1903) | #355 |
| 1910s | 2,087 | #350 (1910) | #380 |
| 1920s | 2,288 | #410 (1921) | #456 |
| 1930s | 1,134 | #513 (1930) | #636 |
| 1940s | 677 | #808 (1940) | #992 |
| 1950s | 537 | #1,171 (1950) | #1,401 |
| 1960s | 273 | #1,683 (1963) | #2,721 |
| 1970s | 180 | #2,801 (1971) | #3,788 |
| 1980s | 183 | #3,585 (1988) | #4,475 |
| 1990s | 597 | #1,130 (1999) | #3,113 |
| 2000s | 2,884 | #723 (2006) | #904 |
| 2010s | 1,978 | #827 (2010) | #1,276 |
| 2020s | 611 | #1,554 (2021) | #1,977 |
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.
Isabell in 1906
Top girls' names in 1906
More about 1906
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295,297 girls got a published name in 1906; 1 in 3,515 of them was named Isabell, which outranked 83.4% of the 2,220 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).