Isella
Isella was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,558 among girls’ names; 281 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Isella?
#8,558 among girls’ names, 2025
Isella rose from #11,265 in 2015 to #8,558 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 7.5 per million.
25 babies in 2019, the peak
Isella peaked in 2019, when 25 girls were given it, #5,209 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,558 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,235 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,661 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,413 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,715 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,036 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,209 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,630 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,991 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,213 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,265 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,441 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,345 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,632 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,374 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,045 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,606 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,103 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,390 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,519 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,245 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,127 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,547 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,481 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,186 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,866 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Isella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isella, and how old are they?
An estimated 279 Americans named Isella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 286 people named Isella (286 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Isella?
Isella is a less common spelling of Isela: SSA has recorded 281 Isella and 5,925 Isela since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 64,770 babies since 1880, Isella is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 6,131 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Isella
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 Isella and names like it
- Compare Isella and IselaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIsella peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isella since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Isella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Isella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.