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Ysabella vs Ysabelle

American parents have registered 2,014 Ysabellas since 1880, against 514 Ysabelles. Ysabella is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ysabella against Ysabelle, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ysabella Ysabelle

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ysabella has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Ysabella had 28 and Ysabelle had 24.

Side by side

  Ysabella Ysabelle
Total US births 2,014514
Most in one year 11025
Babies in 2025 458
Estimated living today 2,000510
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20072003
Best rank 1,886th girls4,943rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,389th10,917th
First recorded 19911994
Girls / boys 2,014 / 0514 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ysabella Ysabelle
England and Wales 15393

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ysabella and Ysabelle.