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

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202009peak #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
Yeargirls
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
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1985#9,3076
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.

Where Isabela is popular in 2009

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedNHWashington: #455 for girls · 16 births · 1 in 1,960 girlsWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedNDMinnesota: #836 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 4,958 girlsMNIllinois: #384 for girls · 34 births · 1 in 1,860 girlsILWisconsin: #454 for girls · 11 births · 1 in 2,228 girlsWIMichigan: #625 for girls · 12 births · 1 in 3,562 girlsMINew York: #573 for girls · 31 births · 1 in 3,057 girlsNYMassachusetts: #498 for girls · 10 births · 1 in 2,625 girlsMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedRIOregon: #467 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 1,954 girlsORNevada: #557 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 2,292 girlsNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedIAIndiana: #474 for girls · 14 births · 1 in 2,264 girlsINOhio: #726 for girls · 13 births · 1 in 4,188 girlsOHPennsylvania: #709 for girls · 13 births · 1 in 4,202 girlsPANew Jersey: #430 for girls · 18 births · 1 in 2,129 girlsNJConnecticut: #340 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 1,577 girlsCTCalifornia: #381 for girls · 110 births · 1 in 1,984 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedUTColorado: #569 for girls · 9 births · 1 in 2,649 girlsCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedNEMissouri: #667 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 3,501 girlsMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedWVVirginia: #995 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 6,116 girlsVAMaryland: #608 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 3,090 girlsMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedDEArizona: #363 for girls · 21 births · 1 in 1,596 girlsAZNew Mexico: #449 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 1,604 girlsNMKansas: #404 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 1,720 girlsKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: #640 for girls · 14 births · 1 in 3,316 girlsNCSouth Carolina: #582 for girls · 7 births · 1 in 2,651 girlsSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedDCOklahoma: #383 for girls · 11 births · 1 in 1,565 girlsOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedMSAlabama: #461 for girls · 10 births · 1 in 2,002 girlsALGeorgia: #516 for girls · 21 births · 1 in 2,415 girlsGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Isabela, so not publishedHITexas: #423 for girls · 80 births · 1 in 2,083 girlsTXFlorida: #246 for girls · 66 births · 1 in 1,247 girlsFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Florida#246 · 1 in 1,247
  2. Connecticut#340 · 1 in 1,577
  3. Arizona#363 · 1 in 1,596
  4. California#381 · 1 in 1,984
  5. Oklahoma#383 · 1 in 1,565

Best ever in a state: #187 in District of Columbia, 2001.

Show every state
StateRankBirthsShare
Florida#246661 in 1,247
Connecticut#34081 in 1,577
Arizona#363211 in 1,596
California#3811101 in 1,984
Oklahoma#383111 in 1,565
Illinois#384341 in 1,860
Kansas#40481 in 1,720
Texas#423801 in 2,083
New Jersey#430181 in 2,129
New Mexico#44951 in 1,604
Wisconsin#454111 in 2,228
Washington#455161 in 1,960
Alabama#461101 in 2,002
Oregon#46781 in 1,954
Indiana#474141 in 2,264
Massachusetts#498101 in 2,625
Georgia#516211 in 2,415
Nevada#55751 in 2,292
Colorado#56991 in 2,649
New York#573311 in 3,057
South Carolina#58271 in 2,651
Maryland#60881 in 3,090
Michigan#625121 in 3,562
North Carolina#640141 in 3,316
Missouri#66781 in 3,501
Pennsylvania#709131 in 4,202
Ohio#726131 in 4,188
Minnesota#83651 in 4,958
Virginia#99561 in 6,116
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.

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 2009

girls
#493
623 births · 1 in 2,949 girls

Top girls' names in 2009

  1. #1Isabella22,321
  2. #2Emma17,910
  3. #3Olivia17,444
  4. #4Sophia16,951
  5. #5Ava15,877
  6. #6Emily15,366
  7. #7Madison15,257
  8. #8Abigail14,401
  9. #9Chloe11,922
  10. #10Mia11,438
  11. #493Isabela623
More about 2009

girls

1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 2,949 of them was named Isabela, which outranked 97.6% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Isabela
  1. #490Jaliyah627
  2. #490Skye627
  3. #492Rosa626
  4. #493Isabela623
  5. #494Meghan621
  6. #495Diamond618
  7. #496Gloria617
Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. ↑ 4,137Taraji#5,013 → #876
  2. ↑ 2,107Bristol#2,773 → #666
  3. ↑ 836Analia#1,167 → #331
  4. ↑ 773Harlow#1,677 → #904
  5. ↑ 610Maliah#1,405 → #795
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,450Dayami#754 → #2,204
  2. ↓ 953Mareli#723 → #1,676
  3. ↓ 773Mylie#839 → #1,612
  4. ↓ 517Marely#334 → #851
  5. ↓ 515Hillary#722 → #1,237

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

See the top 100 for 2009 →