Izabela
Izabela was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,938 among girls’ names; 1,835 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Izabela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Izabela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Izabela mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Izabela is “a female given name from Spanish [in turn from Old Occitan, in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English Isabel”
Borrowed from Spanish Isabel. Doublet of Elżbieta.
/i.zaˈbɛ.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Izabela?
#3,938 among girls’ names, 2025
Izabela fell from #2,632 in 2015 to #3,938 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.1 to 23.0 per million.
95 babies in 2006, the peak
Izabela peaked in 2006, when 95 girls were given it, #2,076 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,938 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,425 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,935 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,243 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,940 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,421 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,108 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,627 | 38.8 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,324 | 27.8 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,077 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,632 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,544 | 39.2 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,581 | 39.3 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,216 | 48.3 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,307 | 46.0 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,320 | 46.1 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,174 | 50.1 |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,165 | 49.2 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,262 | 44.7 |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,076 | 50.0 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,146 | 46.5 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,606 | 34.9 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,326 | 39.4 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,682 | 31.7 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,886 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,759 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,777 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,019 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,573 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,881 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,092 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,824 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,007 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,687 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,032 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,267 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Izabela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Izabela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Izabela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Izabela, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,835 Americans ever recorded as Izabela. The median Izabela alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,224 people named Izabela (3,221 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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 | 80 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 696 |
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 Izabela born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 7 | #1,171 | 3.2× |
Where Izabela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Izabela is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1987 it was given 3.2 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 Izabela 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 40,489 babies since 1880, Izabela is the fourth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 666 babies (5.6%), 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 Izabela
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 Izabela and names like it
- Compare Izabela and IzabellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIzabela peaked in 2006.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Izabela since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Izabela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Izabela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.