Isabelle
Where Isabelle comes from
Borrowed from French Isabelle.
- French
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1740Isabelle de Charrière bornDutch French-language writer and composer
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #163 among girls — 80 babies in the first year on record.
- 1955Isabelle Adjani bornFrench actress
- 2007Peak, #794,106 babies named Isabelle — more than any year before or since.
- 2007The comebackBack 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.