Isabelle
Isabelle was given to 1,825 girls in 2025, #166 among girls’ names; 107,782 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 84,200 Americans named Isabelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 23.
Isabelle came back: it left the girls’ top 1,000 after 1957 and returned in 1991.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isabelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Isabelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Isabelle is “a female given name from French Isabelle, ultimately a variant of Elizabeth.”
Borrowed from French Isabelle.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Isabelle?
#166 among girls’ names, 2025
Isabelle fell from #94 in 2015 to #166 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.8 to 1.1 per 1,000.
4,106 babies in 2007, the peak
Isabelle peaked in 2007, when 4,106 girls were given it, #79 among girls’ names. The 1,825 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,825 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,787 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 1,793 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,108 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,393 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 2,254 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,506 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,652 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 3,168 | #92 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 3,039 | #102 | 1.7 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,225 | #94 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 3,080 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 2013 | 2,762 | #114 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 2,507 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 2,669 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 2,899 | #105 | 1.6 |
| 2009 | 3,307 | #100 | 1.8 |
| 2008 | 3,573 | #93 | 1.9 |
| 2007 | 4,106 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 2006 | 4,042 | #84 | 2.1 |
| 2005 | 3,284 | #96 | 1.8 |
| 2004 | 3,100 | #107 | 1.7 |
| 2003 | 3,113 | #110 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 3,063 | #111 | 1.7 |
| 2001 | 2,943 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | 2,340 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 1,954 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1998 | 1,592 | #196 | 0.90 |
| 1997 | 1,164 | #251 | 0.67 |
| 1996 | 726 | #370 | 0.41 |
| 1995 | 509 | #487 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 444 | #547 | 0.25 |
| 1993 | 281 | #739 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 241 | #828 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 194 | #969 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 171 | #1,044 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 139 | #1,176 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,232 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 92 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,845 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,755 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,138 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,784 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,167 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,227 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,283 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,360 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,270 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,915 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,789 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,888 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,987 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,599 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,918 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,641 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,578 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,583 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,406 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 72 | #1,277 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 80 | #1,202 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 104 | #1,068 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 90 | #1,151 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 98 | #1,101 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 104 | #1,073 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 97 | #1,094 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 106 | #1,031 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 82 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 110 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 88 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,013 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 98 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 109 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 112 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 122 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 103 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 111 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 124 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 151 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 124 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 131 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 148 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 160 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 176 | #559 | 0.13 |
| 1941 | 157 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1940 | 188 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1939 | 151 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1938 | 162 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1937 | 179 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1936 | 225 | #432 | 0.22 |
| 1935 | 251 | #408 | 0.24 |
| 1934 | 272 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1933 | 330 | #343 | 0.33 |
| 1932 | 364 | #335 | 0.34 |
| 1931 | 390 | #322 | 0.37 |
| 1930 | 437 | #316 | 0.39 |
| 1929 | 495 | #293 | 0.44 |
| 1928 | 533 | #283 | 0.46 |
| 1927 | 569 | #275 | 0.48 |
| 1926 | 637 | #265 | 0.54 |
| 1925 | 709 | #248 | 0.58 |
| 1924 | 759 | #241 | 0.61 |
| 1923 | 723 | #244 | 0.60 |
| 1922 | 794 | #230 | 0.66 |
| 1921 | 846 | #221 | 0.69 |
| 1920 | 899 | #213 | 0.75 |
| 1919 | 887 | #210 | 0.78 |
| 1918 | 886 | #213 | 0.77 |
| 1917 | 982 | #190 | 0.91 |
| 1916 | 927 | #192 | 0.89 |
| 1915 | 942 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 1914 | 739 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 1913 | 606 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 1912 | 520 | #187 | 0.93 |
| 1911 | 377 | #191 | 0.90 |
| 1910 | 389 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1909 | 326 | #181 | 0.94 |
| 1908 | 308 | #185 | 0.92 |
| 1907 | 291 | #187 | 0.91 |
| 1906 | 278 | #180 | 0.94 |
| 1905 | 253 | #191 | 0.87 |
| 1904 | 223 | #202 | 0.81 |
| 1903 | 213 | #197 | 0.81 |
| 1902 | 204 | #207 | 0.77 |
| 1901 | 194 | #207 | 0.81 |
| 1900 | 224 | #210 | 0.75 |
| 1899 | 181 | #205 | 0.78 |
| 1898 | 221 | #195 | 0.85 |
| 1897 | 215 | #184 | 0.92 |
| 1896 | 180 | #208 | 0.76 |
| 1895 | 205 | #190 | 0.88 |
| 1894 | 184 | #193 | 0.83 |
| 1893 | 205 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1892 | 213 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1891 | 130 | #206 | 0.70 |
| 1890 | 156 | #189 | 0.82 |
| 1889 | 141 | #191 | 0.79 |
| 1888 | 153 | #182 | 0.86 |
| 1887 | 108 | #195 | 0.74 |
| 1886 | 136 | #170 | 0.94 |
| 1885 | 105 | #182 | 0.79 |
| 1884 | 115 | #165 | 0.89 |
| 1883 | 91 | #176 | 0.81 |
| 1882 | 81 | #176 | 0.75 |
| 1881 | 82 | #164 | 0.89 |
| 1880 | 80 | #164 | 0.88 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isabelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isabelle has been given almost only to girls: 20 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Isabelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isabelle, and how old are they?
84,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 107,782 Americans ever recorded as Isabelle. The median Isabelle alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 74,125 people named Isabelle (74,028 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 74,210 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,050 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,560 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 770 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 45,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32,400 |
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 Isabelle born?
The states with the most babies named Isabelle are California, Texas and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 203 | #148 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 126 | #274 | 0.6× |
| New York | 118 | #140 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 97 | #189 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 76 | #142 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 68 | #120 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 65 | #157 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 62 | #181 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 61 | #119 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 60 | #165 | 1.0× |
Where Isabelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Isabelle is most over-represented in Maine: since 1910 it was given 1.6 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 Isabelle 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 540,761 babies since 1880, Isabelle is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,825 of their 12,965 babies (14%), 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 Isabelle
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 Isabelle and names like it
- Compare Isabelle and IsabellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIsabelle peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isabelle since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Isabelle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Isabelle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.