Issabella
Issabella was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,539 among girls’ names; 1,810 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Issabella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Issabella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Issabella?
#3,539 among girls’ names, 2025
Issabella fell from #2,598 in 2015 to #3,539 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.7 to 26.8 per million.
137 babies in 2010, the peak
Issabella peaked in 2010, when 137 girls were given it, #1,592 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,539 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,604 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,666 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,939 | 34.8 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,086 | 32.3 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,906 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,242 | 48.9 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,348 | 45.9 |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,291 | 46.9 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,719 | 36.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,598 | 38.7 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,484 | 40.9 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,008 | 55.3 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,169 | 49.4 |
| 2011 | 131 | #1,641 | 74.5 |
| 2010 | 137 | #1,592 | 77.1 |
| 2009 | 121 | #1,788 | 65.9 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,144 | 49.7 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,548 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,996 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,535 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,456 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,058 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,295 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,892 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,599 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,005 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,664 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,158 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,084 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,950 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,232 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Issabella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Issabella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Issabella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Issabella, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,810 Americans ever recorded as Issabella. The median Issabella alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,882 people named Issabella (1,880 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,532 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 955 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 820 |
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 Issabella born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,750 | 0.7× |
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 Issabella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Issabella?
Issabella is a less common spelling of Isabella: SSA has recorded 1,810 Issabella and 417,454 Isabella since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 540,745 babies since 1880, Issabella is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 12,965 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Issabella
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 Issabella and names like it
- Compare Issabella and IsabellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIssabella peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Issabella since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Issabella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Issabella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.