Isabella

Where Isabella comes from

Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.
— Wiktionary's entry for Isabella
  • Hebrew
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1501
    Isabella of Austria born
    Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden;
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #215 among girls — 50 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1952
    Isabella Rossellini born
    Italian-American actress
  4. 2010
    Peak, #1
    22,936 babies named Isabella — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The comeback
    Back to #1 after sinking to #3,541 in 1979.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Isabella Rossellini · Italian-American actress, born 1952
  • Isabella of Austria · Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden;, 1501–1526
  • Isabella d'Este · Italian noble, 1474–1539
  • Isabella Bird · British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist, 1831–1904
  • Isabella Beeton · British journalist, editor, publisher, and writer, 1836–1865

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.