Isabella

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Isabella boys named Isabella

By the numbers

Total US births

417,454

Estimated living today

406,000

Median age today

14

Peak year

2010

Best rank

1st

Rank in 2025

7th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

417,001 / 453

How old the living Isabellas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 417,454 babies given the name since 1880, about 406,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 278,000 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Isabellas

• Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504)queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504
• Isabella II of Spain (1830–1904)Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
• Isabella Rossellini (born 1952)Italian-American actress
• Isabella of Portugal (1503–1539)16th-century Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Spain
• Isabella of France (1295–1358)Queen consort of England
• Isabella of Austria (1501–1526)Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden;
• Isabella of Aragon (1248–1271)French queen consort
• Princess Isabella of Denmark (born 2007)Danish princess, elder daughter of Frederik X of Denmark and Queen Mary

People named Isabella with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Isabella is most common

• CA63,371
• TX42,412
• FL33,744
• NY29,452
• IL16,822
• PA15,768
• NJ14,261
• OH13,194
• MI10,905
• GA10,436

Relative to how many babies each state records, Isabella is most concentrated in Nevada (2.8×), Florida (2.4×), Arizona (2.0×), California (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular girls’ names the year Isabella peaked:

• Isabella
• Sophia
• Emma
• Olivia
• Ava
• Emily

All the names of 2010

Isabella elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Isabella: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Isabella is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.13% of children were given it – 80 of them.

Isabella: rank by region

In 2025, Isabella was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Isabella was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Isabella was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Isabella appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (69th), Province of Antwerp (100th), Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd), Brussels-Capital Region (194th) and Province of East Flanders (214th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Isabella by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Isabella among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Isabella lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 9,285 women called Isabella were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Isaac
• Isaiah
• Isabel
• Isabelle
• Isaias
• Isabell
• Isabela
• Isai
• Isa
• Isadore
• Isadora
• Isaak

Isabella against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Isabella vs Isaac
• Isabella vs Isaiah
• Isabella vs Isabel
• Isabella vs Isabelle
• Isabella vs Isaias
• Isabella vs Isabell

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