Isobel
#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · girls
- 1916 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,802since 1894
Isobel over time
Rank among girls' names. Isobel has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,298 | 79 |
| 2024 | #2,327 | 79 |
| 2023 | #2,050 | 95 |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 |
| 2021 | #2,071 | 92 |
| 2020 | #1,991 | 94 |
| 2019 | #2,070 | 91 |
| 2018 | #2,130 | 89 |
| 2017 | #1,828 | 112 |
| 2016 | #1,660 | 129 |
| 2015 | #2,088 | 93 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 |
| 2013 | #1,968 | 100 |
| 2012 | #2,205 | 85 |
| 2011 | #2,274 | 82 |
| 2010 | #1,959 | 102 |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 |
| 2008 | #2,380 | 81 |
| 2007 | #1,886 | 110 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 |
| 2005 | #3,052 | 52 |
| 2004 | #3,071 | 50 |
| 2003 | #2,439 | 67 |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 |
| 2001 | #2,635 | 57 |
| 2000 | #2,632 | 56 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | — | |
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| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 |
| 1947 | #2,898 | 13 |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 |
| 1936 | #1,873 | 17 |
| 1935 | #1,845 | 18 |
| 1934 | #2,003 | 16 |
| 1933 | #1,364 | 28 |
| 1932 | #1,237 | 34 |
| 1931 | #1,941 | 17 |
| 1930 | #1,320 | 33 |
| 1929 | #1,419 | 29 |
| 1928 | #1,115 | 46 |
| 1927 | #1,172 | 43 |
| 1926 | #1,279 | 37 |
| 1925 | #1,089 | 49 |
| 1924 | #1,354 | 36 |
| 1923 | #1,111 | 47 |
| 1922 | #1,190 | 42 |
| 1921 | #969 | 58 |
| 1920 | #1,312 | 35 |
| 1919 | #1,297 | 35 |
| 1918 | #1,184 | 40 |
| 1917 | #1,099 | 42 |
| 1916 | #817 | 69 |
| 1915 | #1,094 | 38 |
| 1914 | #901 | 42 |
| 1913 | #1,003 | 29 |
| 1912 | #846 | 35 |
| 1911 | #1,007 | 19 |
| 1910 | #1,069 | 17 |
| 1909 | #1,152 | 13 |
| 1908 | #849 | 21 |
| 1907 | #1,142 | 12 |
| 1906 | #872 | 18 |
| 1905 | #900 | 17 |
| 1904 | #1,050 | 12 |
| 1903 | #969 | 13 |
| 1902 | #1,133 | 10 |
| 1901 | #1,466 | 6 |
| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 |
| 1899 | #1,278 | 7 |
| 1898 | #1,171 | 9 |
| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 |
| 1896 | #1,583 | 5 |
| 1895 | #1,053 | 10 |
| 1894 | #1,485 | 5 |
| 1893 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Isobel! It came in at #1,485, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1950, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Isobel is popular in 1917
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#477 · 1 in 10,380
Best ever in a state: #349 in West Virginia, 1916.
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| Pennsylvania | #477 | 9 | 1 in 10,380 |
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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 Isobel
- 29 spots since 2024 (#2,327 → #2,298)
- 307 spots since 2020 (#1,991 → #2,298)
- 210 spots since 2015 (#2,088 → #2,298)
- Biggest jump: 343 spots in 1921 (#1,312 → #969)
- Biggest drop: 303 spots in 1909 (#849 → #1,152)
- Debuted 1894
- Peaked 1916 at #817 (69 births)
- Births halved by 1929, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1905–1906
- Highest: 1 in 13,737 girls born in 2016 were named Isobel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #817 in 1916, was only 1 in 15,135 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.8% of all girls named Isobel (981) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 42 | #1,053 (1895) | #1,326 |
| 1900s | 129 | #849 (1908) | #1,109 |
| 1910s | 366 | #817 (1916) | #1,032 |
| 1920s | 422 | #969 (1921) | #1,201 |
| 1930s | 190 | #1,237 (1932) | #2,075 |
| 1940s | 81 | #2,424 (1940) | #3,402 |
| 1950s | 51 | #3,696 (1956) | #4,742 |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,289 (1965) | #5,934 |
| 1970s | 13 | #6,362 (1970) | #7,021 |
| 1980s | 7 | #9,244 (1988) | #9,244 |
| 1990s | 270 | #2,405 (1999) | #5,102 |
| 2000s | 715 | #1,886 (2007) | #2,494 |
| 2010s | 981 | #1,660 (2016) | #2,019 |
| 2020s | 523 | #1,991 (2020) | #2,161 |
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.
Isobel in 1917
Top girls' names in 1917
More about 1917
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1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 25,744 of them was named Isobel, which outranked 79.3% 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).
- #1,079Retta43
- #1,079Rilla43
- #1,079Venice43
- #1,099Isobel42
- #1,099Gladyce42
- #1,099Henriette42
- #1,099Irine42
- #1,110Abigail41
- #1,110Antonetta41
- #1,110Beula41
Tied with 10 names at #1,099; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.