Ysabel

#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · Last seen for boys in 1967 at #3,559
Given to girls 86.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1898 · 6 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,498
since 1897

Ysabel over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201917peak #1,502, 1898peak #2,178, 1930girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,55422
2024#7,59414
2023#8,05513
2022#15,3065
2021#6,69117
2020#5,85020
2019#5,30624
2018#5,31524
2017#5,66122
2016#6,90117
2015#5,28825
2014#5,45624
2013#5,83422
2012#5,55724
2011#5,35825
2010#6,18221
2009#4,80530
2008#4,55033
2007#3,48247
2006#3,41447
2005#3,80938
2004#3,74838
2003#2,95651
2002#3,59537
2001#3,19843
2000#3,07045
1999#2,73750
1998#2,65151
1997#4,50823
1996#4,58322
1995#5,95815
1994#5,01619
1993#4,67121
1992#5,26718
1991#6,58813
1990#9,2478
1989#8,0379
1988#11,7985
1987#11,3255
1986#6,15611
1985#9,3076
1984#7,3988
1983
1982#9,2376
1981#8,1287
1980#10,3925
1979#10,2105
1978
1977#7,5677
1976#6,6118
1975#9,0675
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970#7,0706
1969
1968
1967#3,5596
1966
1965
1964
1963
1962
1961#5,8516
1960#6,3905#4,0385
1959#4,6258#3,9885
1958#6,1035#3,9445
1957#4,5368
1956
1955#5,2086
1954
1953#3,48011
1952
1951#2,8448
1950
1949#3,8928
1948#3,5939
1947
1946#3,21710
1945#4,5565#2,5748
1944#2,8627
1943#3,2499
1942#3,7387
1941#2,33310
1940#3,4595
1939#3,1458
1938
1937#3,4347
1936
1935#3,2526
1934#3,1598
1933
1932#3,5687#3,0927
1931#3,8486#2,8648
1930#1,87519#2,17813
1929#2,09816#2,58910
1928#2,95410#2,52211
1927#3,2849#2,9129
1926#2,87211#2,56611
1925#2,37815#2,58811
1924#2,40915#2,34713
1923#2,26416#2,9509
1922#2,78012#3,0149
1921#2,50914#3,2148
1920#1,81622
1919#2,51513#3,1158
1918#2,67412#2,69910
1917#2,20415#2,56210
1916#2,65811#3,5166
1915#2,9009#3,0827
1914#2,6388
1913#2,8276
1912#2,6346
1911#2,1916
1910#1,52110
1909
1908#1,5478
1907#1,8216
1906#1,5537
1905#1,5387
1904#1,8775
1903
1902
1901
1900#1,9325
1899
1898#1,5026
1897#1,5555
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First appearance
1897

The first year at least five girls were named Ysabel! It came in at #1,555, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1899–1904, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Ysabel
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 2,040 spots since 2024 (#7,594#5,554)
  • 296 spots since 2020 (#5,850#5,554)
  • 266 spots since 2015 (#5,288#5,554)
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1897
  • Peaked 1898 at #1,502 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 34,646
  • Highest: 1 in 34,646 girls born in 1998 were named Ysabel (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,502 in 1898, was only 1 in 43,128 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 27.3% of all girls named Ysabel (409) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1970
  • Mostly boys until 1969, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s11#1,502 (1898)#1,529
1900s38#1,538 (1905)#1,711
1910s96#1,521 (1910)#2,476
1920s140#1,816 (1920)#2,536
1930s55#1,875 (1930)#3,172
1940s48#3,217 (1946)#3,708
1950s38#3,480 (1953)#4,790
1960s11#5,851 (1961)#6,121
1970s31#6,611 (1976)#8,105
1980s62#6,156 (1986)#9,086
1990s240#2,651 (1998)#5,123
2000s409#2,956 (2003)#3,663
2010s228#5,288 (2015)#5,686
2020s91#5,554 (2025)#8,175

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.

Ysabel in 1917

girls
#2,204
15 births · 1 in 72,084 girls
boys
#2,562
10 births · 1 in 92,548 boys

Top girls' names in 1917

  1. #1Mary64,280
  2. #2Helen34,251
  3. #3Dorothy28,852
  4. #4Margaret25,560
  5. #5Ruth23,568
  6. #6Mildred16,256
  7. #7Anna15,160
  8. #8Elizabeth15,131
  9. #9Frances14,363
  10. #10Virginia14,261
  11. #2,204Ysabel15

Top boys' names in 1917

  1. #1John51,852
  2. #2William42,422
  3. #3James37,337
  4. #4Robert35,220
  5. #5Joseph24,761
  6. #6George24,196
  7. #7Charles24,143
  8. #8Edward17,501
  9. #9Frank15,768
  10. #10Thomas12,611
  11. #2,562Ysabel10
More about 1917

girls

1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 72,084 of them was named Ysabel, which outranked 58.5% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ysabel
  1. #2,100Wenonah16
  2. #2,100Yola16
  3. #2,100Yukie16
  4. #2,204Ysabel15
  5. #2,204Adriana15
  6. #2,204Aldora15
  7. #2,204Allison15
  8. #2,316Adrian14
  9. #2,316Aileene14
  10. #2,316Alvie14

Tied with 111 names at #2,204; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. 549Georgene#1,445#896
  2. 380Ottie#1,332#952
  3. 365Louis#1,298#933
  4. 334Valentine#1,298#964
  5. 322Harold#1,210#888
Fallers
  1. 401Ceola#840#1,241
  2. 373Floretta#964#1,337
  3. 344Buelah#993#1,337
  4. 326Glennie#915#1,241
  5. 290Maye#915#1,205

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

boys

925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 92,548 of them was named Ysabel, which outranked 44.3% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ysabel
  1. #2,423Windsor11
  2. #2,423Yates11
  3. #2,423Zoltan11
  4. #2,562Ysabel10
  5. #2,562Adger10
  6. #2,562Algernon10
  7. #2,562Arbie10
  8. #2,732Adair9
  9. #2,732Alba9
  10. #2,732Aldred9

Tied with 169 names at #2,562; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. 520Nicolas#1,304#784
  2. 469Hezekiah#1,415#946
  3. 433Hilliard#1,415#982
  4. 404Rayford#1,304#900
  5. 338Minoru#1,335#997
Fallers
  1. 1,738Tatsuo#824#2,562
  2. 709Berlin#984#1,693
  3. 556Prentice#972#1,528
  4. 473Manning#964#1,437
  5. 457Lovell#939#1,396

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

See the top 100 for 1917