Isobella
Isobella was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,832 among girls’ names; 243 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isobella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Isobella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Isobella is “a female given name, variant of Isabella.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Isobella?
#15,832 among girls’ names, 2025
Isobella fell from #12,271 in 2015 to #15,832 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
22 babies in 2009, the peak
Isobella peaked in 2009, when 22 girls were given it, #6,184 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,832 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,237 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,759 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,118 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,022 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,994 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,047 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,668 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,271 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,337 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,346 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,736 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,546 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,029 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,184 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,971 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,247 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,014 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,246 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,277 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,952 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,544 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,551 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,969 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,835 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,338 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isobella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isobella 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 Isobella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isobella, and how old are they?
An estimated 241 Americans named Isobella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 233 people named Isobella (232 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 540,653 babies since 1880, Isobella is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 12,971 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Isobella
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 Isobella and names like it
- Compare Isobella and IsabellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIsobella peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Isobella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Isobella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.