Isabell
Isabell was given to 87 girls in 2025, #2,144 among girls’ names; 15,279 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,660 Americans named Isabell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isabell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Isabell mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Isabell is “a female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Isabel or Isabelle.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Isabell?
#2,144 among girls’ names, 2025
Isabell fell from #1,288 in 2015 to #2,144 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.05 per 1,000.
388 babies in 2006, the peak
Isabell peaked in 2006, when 388 girls were given it, #724 among girls’ names. The 87 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,144 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,290 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,343 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,889 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 135 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,670 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,777 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,507 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,485 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 159 | #1,449 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 187 | #1,288 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 199 | #1,230 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 210 | #1,145 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 228 | #1,087 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 261 | #981 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 324 | #830 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 341 | #827 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 366 | #796 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 363 | #794 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 388 | #724 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 281 | #894 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 287 | #856 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 260 | #915 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 243 | #919 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 193 | #1,097 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,224 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 174 | #1,130 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,460 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,688 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,564 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,375 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,120 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,447 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,125 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,547 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,930 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,729 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,174 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,779 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,767 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,316 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,542 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,065 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,761 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,203 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,500 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,221 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,142 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,103 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,826 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,483 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,831 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,227 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,744 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,971 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,765 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,960 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,610 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,219 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 60 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 62 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 77 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 51 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 66 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 74 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 75 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 75 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 77 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 96 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 87 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 95 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 106 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 101 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 96 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 117 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 139 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 126 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 171 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1929 | 181 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1928 | 172 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1927 | 208 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 221 | #467 | 0.19 |
| 1925 | 237 | #450 | 0.19 |
| 1924 | 282 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1923 | 234 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1922 | 233 | #446 | 0.19 |
| 1921 | 271 | #411 | 0.22 |
| 1920 | 249 | #423 | 0.21 |
| 1919 | 274 | #391 | 0.24 |
| 1918 | 281 | #391 | 0.24 |
| 1917 | 293 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1916 | 220 | #422 | 0.21 |
| 1915 | 249 | #384 | 0.25 |
| 1914 | 210 | #365 | 0.28 |
| 1913 | 151 | #395 | 0.24 |
| 1912 | 160 | #364 | 0.29 |
| 1911 | 120 | #369 | 0.29 |
| 1910 | 129 | #351 | 0.33 |
| 1909 | 105 | #353 | 0.30 |
| 1908 | 104 | #353 | 0.31 |
| 1907 | 88 | #375 | 0.28 |
| 1906 | 84 | #371 | 0.28 |
| 1905 | 100 | #340 | 0.34 |
| 1904 | 73 | #386 | 0.27 |
| 1903 | 99 | #314 | 0.38 |
| 1902 | 81 | #356 | 0.31 |
| 1901 | 70 | #361 | 0.29 |
| 1900 | 92 | #350 | 0.31 |
| 1899 | 73 | #350 | 0.31 |
| 1898 | 87 | #334 | 0.34 |
| 1897 | 64 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1896 | 58 | #374 | 0.24 |
| 1895 | 61 | #358 | 0.26 |
| 1894 | 60 | #360 | 0.27 |
| 1893 | 56 | #361 | 0.26 |
| 1892 | 53 | #366 | 0.25 |
| 1891 | 41 | #390 | 0.22 |
| 1890 | 51 | #358 | 0.27 |
| 1889 | 58 | #322 | 0.33 |
| 1888 | 46 | #353 | 0.26 |
| 1887 | 35 | #364 | 0.24 |
| 1886 | 41 | #334 | 0.28 |
| 1885 | 39 | #325 | 0.29 |
| 1884 | 35 | #334 | 0.27 |
| 1883 | 25 | #366 | 0.22 |
| 1882 | 22 | #380 | 0.20 |
| 1881 | 22 | #352 | 0.24 |
| 1880 | 22 | #343 | 0.24 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isabell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isabell has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Isabell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isabell, and how old are they?
7,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 50% of the 15,279 Americans ever recorded as Isabell. The median Isabell alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 8,283 people named Isabell (8,249 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 458 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 753 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,770 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Isabell born?
The states with the most babies named Isabell are Texas, New York and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,494 | 1.0× |
| New York | 6 | #1,914 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,550 | 1.0× |
Where Isabell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Isabell is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Isabell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 153,058 babies since 1880, Isabell is the second most given (10.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 1,912 babies (4.6%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Isabell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Isabell and names like it
- Compare Isabell and IsabelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIsabell peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isabell since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Isabell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Isabell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.