Isela
#1,927 for girls in 2025, 100 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 196 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,925since 1926
Isela over time
Rank among girls' names. Isela has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,927 | 100 |
| 2024 | #1,852 | 108 |
| 2023 | #1,792 | 113 |
| 2022 | #1,807 | 113 |
| 2021 | #2,715 | 63 |
| 2020 | #1,872 | 103 |
| 2019 | #2,170 | 85 |
| 2018 | #2,113 | 90 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 |
| 2015 | #2,524 | 71 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 |
| 2013 | #2,626 | 67 |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 |
| 2011 | #2,483 | 73 |
| 2010 | #2,152 | 91 |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 |
| 2008 | #1,756 | 126 |
| 2007 | #1,570 | 144 |
| 2006 | #1,505 | 146 |
| 2005 | #1,210 | 189 |
| 2004 | #1,643 | 118 |
| 2003 | #1,641 | 117 |
| 2002 | #1,805 | 99 |
| 2001 | #1,468 | 128 |
| 2000 | #1,288 | 150 |
| 1999 | #1,341 | 132 |
| 1998 | #1,015 | 196 |
| 1997 | #1,377 | 124 |
| 1996 | #1,491 | 109 |
| 1995 | #1,355 | 121 |
| 1994 | #1,376 | 120 |
| 1993 | #1,664 | 90 |
| 1992 | #1,565 | 99 |
| 1991 | #1,710 | 85 |
| 1990 | #1,847 | 77 |
| 1989 | #1,651 | 83 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 |
| 1987 | #1,812 | 64 |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 |
| 1985 | #1,727 | 66 |
| 1984 | #1,991 | 51 |
| 1983 | #1,751 | 61 |
| 1982 | #1,474 | 81 |
| 1981 | #1,304 | 97 |
| 1980 | #1,396 | 89 |
| 1979 | #1,301 | 96 |
| 1978 | #1,176 | 107 |
| 1977 | #1,231 | 98 |
| 1976 | #1,098 | 110 |
| 1975 | #1,038 | 115 |
| 1974 | #1,161 | 98 |
| 1973 | #1,399 | 70 |
| 1972 | #1,205 | 89 |
| 1971 | #1,253 | 88 |
| 1970 | #2,354 | 32 |
| 1969 | #1,728 | 49 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 |
| 1967 | #2,558 | 23 |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #2,675 | 22 |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 |
| 1962 | #2,741 | 20 |
| 1961 | #2,299 | 27 |
| 1960 | #2,989 | 17 |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 |
| 1956 | #2,725 | 18 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 |
| 1953 | #2,431 | 19 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 |
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| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Isela! It came in at #3,873, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1930, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Isela is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#623 · 1 in 3,997
- Colorado#633 · 1 in 3,440
- Washington#696 · 1 in 4,195
- Texas#778 · 1 in 5,106
- Arizona#863 · 1 in 5,324
Best ever in a state: #334 in Arizona, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #623 | 56 | 1 in 3,997 |
| Colorado | #633 | 7 | 1 in 3,440 |
| Washington | #696 | 7 | 1 in 4,195 |
| Texas | #778 | 30 | 1 in 5,106 |
| Arizona | #863 | 6 | 1 in 5,324 |
| Illinois | #1,027 | 9 | 1 in 7,916 |
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 5 | 1 in 9,018 |
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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 Isela
- 75 spots since 2024 (#1,852 → #1,927)
- 55 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #1,927)
- 597 spots since 2015 (#2,524 → #1,927)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 1998 at #1,015 (196 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,015 girls born in 1998 were named Isela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,073 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 22.1% of all girls named Isela (1,312) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 12 | #3,873 (1926) | #4,299 |
| 1930s | 22 | #3,497 (1931) | #4,086 |
| 1940s | 67 | #2,974 (1948) | #3,585 |
| 1950s | 144 | #2,431 (1953) | #3,055 |
| 1960s | 232 | #1,728 (1969) | #2,736 |
| 1970s | 903 | #1,038 (1975) | #1,322 |
| 1980s | 704 | #1,304 (1981) | #1,731 |
| 1990s | 1,153 | #1,015 (1998) | #1,474 |
| 2000s | 1,312 | #1,210 (2005) | #1,601 |
| 2010s | 776 | #2,113 (2018) | #2,390 |
| 2020s | 600 | #1,792 (2023) | #1,994 |
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.
Isela in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 12,107 of them was named Isela, which outranked 92.7% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).