Isabelle

Where Isabelle comes from

Borrowed from French Isabelle.
— Wiktionary's entry for Isabelle
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1740
    Isabelle de Charrière born
    Dutch French-language writer and composer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #163 among girls — 80 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1955
    Isabelle Adjani born
    French actress
  4. 2007
    Peak, #79
    4,106 babies named Isabelle — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2007
    The comeback
    Back to #79 after sinking to #2,770 in 1982.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French Isabelle, ultimately a variant of Elizabeth.
Namesakes
  • Isabelle de Charrière · Dutch French-language writer and composer, 1740–1805
  • Isabelle Adjani · French actress, born 1955
  • Isabelle Huppert · French actress, born 1953
  • Isabelle Aubret · French singer, born 1938
  • Isabelle Fuhrman · American actress, born 1997

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.