Isabela
#664 for girls in 2025, 426 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 695 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,698since 1982
Isabela over time
Rank among girls' names. Isabela has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #664 | 426 |
| 2024 | #644 | 456 |
| 2023 | #659 | 446 |
| 2022 | #587 | 510 |
| 2021 | #836 | 330 |
| 2020 | #835 | 328 |
| 2019 | #776 | 357 |
| 2018 | #816 | 332 |
| 2017 | #812 | 336 |
| 2016 | #813 | 351 |
| 2015 | #763 | 370 |
| 2014 | #721 | 389 |
| 2013 | #670 | 427 |
| 2012 | #619 | 462 |
| 2011 | #665 | 426 |
| 2010 | #571 | 511 |
| 2009 | #493 | 623 |
| 2008 | #535 | 575 |
| 2007 | #504 | 634 |
| 2006 | #467 | 676 |
| 2005 | #534 | 539 |
| 2004 | #442 | 695 |
| 2003 | #483 | 610 |
| 2002 | #632 | 403 |
| 2001 | #741 | 322 |
| 2000 | #850 | 259 |
| 1999 | #939 | 223 |
| 1998 | #1,183 | 157 |
| 1997 | #1,442 | 115 |
| 1996 | #1,792 | 82 |
| 1995 | #1,863 | 75 |
| 1994 | #2,232 | 59 |
| 1993 | #2,639 | 46 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 |
| 1990 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
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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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#320 · 1 in 1,373
- Oregon#454 · 1 in 1,762
- Florida#458 · 1 in 2,127
- Connecticut#461 · 1 in 1,902
- Texas#464 · 1 in 2,191
Best ever in a state: #187 in District of Columbia, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #320 | 17 | 1 in 1,373 |
| Oregon | #454 | 7 | 1 in 1,762 |
| Florida | #458 | 40 | 1 in 2,127 |
| Connecticut | #461 | 6 | 1 in 1,902 |
| Texas | #464 | 74 | 1 in 2,191 |
| Wisconsin | #489 | 10 | 1 in 2,043 |
| New Jersey | #493 | 16 | 1 in 2,223 |
| Kansas | #499 | 6 | 1 in 1,882 |
| Maryland | #512 | 10 | 1 in 2,089 |
| California | #524 | 65 | 1 in 2,537 |
| Pennsylvania | #624 | 16 | 1 in 2,916 |
| North Carolina | #638 | 15 | 1 in 2,962 |
| Georgia | #652 | 16 | 1 in 2,836 |
| Colorado | #677 | 7 | 1 in 3,089 |
| Illinois | #682 | 14 | 1 in 3,182 |
| Washington | #687 | 9 | 1 in 3,139 |
| Alabama | #696 | 6 | 1 in 3,099 |
| Arizona | #697 | 9 | 1 in 3,119 |
| South Carolina | #812 | 5 | 1 in 3,581 |
| New York | #821 | 19 | 1 in 4,092 |
| Michigan | #870 | 8 | 1 in 4,410 |
| Ohio | #954 | 9 | 1 in 5,218 |
| Virginia | #1,039 | 6 | 1 in 5,536 |
| Indiana | #1,051 | 5 | 1 in 5,566 |
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See more about Isabela
- 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)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2004 at #442 (695 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- 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%)
- 42.0% of all girls named Isabela (5,336) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 59 | #4,670 (1989) | #8,255 |
| 1990s | 846 | #939 (1999) | #2,286 |
| 2000s | 5,336 | #442 (2004) | #568 |
| 2010s | 3,961 | #571 (2010) | #723 |
| 2020s | 2,496 | #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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 3,598 of them was named Isabela, which outranked 96.3% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).