Meaning not yet researched.
Isabel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,746 in 2025. Its best rank was #83 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #83 in 2003; #177 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isabel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#177 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #83.
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Isabel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,746 girls in 2025. Peak: #83 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 4,009 (2006).
In 2025, 1,746 US girls were named Isabel, making it the 177th most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #167 in 2024. That is 80 fewer than the 1,826 girls named Isabel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #83, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,009, in 2006. For comparison, it was #149 in 2015 and #421 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isabel in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 81 babies with the name. In all, 133,977 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 36,125 babies named Isabel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,154 US girls were named Isabel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 921 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isabel ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #81 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Elizabeth (1,693,973 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880), Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880) and Isabella (417,454 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ysabel, Isabele and Yzabel are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bell, Bella, Belle, Ib, Issy and Nib.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan, Dutch, Spanish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ysabel (1,723), Isabele (181), Yzabel (56), Sabela (51), Issabel (43), Izzabel (34), Esabel (23), Issabell (16), Ysabell (14), Isibeal (14), Isobell (13), Izabele (12), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 9 | #81 | #35 |
| Alaska | 7 | #99 | #154 |
| Massachusetts | 52 | #103 | #126 |
| Arizona | 58 | #107 | #126 |
| California | 273 | #108 | #115 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #111 | — |
| Washington | 55 | #118 | #105 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #120 | #127 |
| Oregon | 28 | #121 | #220 |
| Nevada | 19 | #123 | #158 |
| Delaware | 7 | #130 | — |
| Colorado | 41 | #132 | #114 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #140 | #129 |
| New York | 113 | #144 | #113 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #146 | #255 |
| Texas | 218 | #147 | #140 |
| Oklahoma | 25 | #153 | #343 |
| Illinois | 63 | #159 | #122 |
| Maryland | 31 | #162 | #153 |
| Florida | 101 | #171 | #126 |
| New Jersey | 47 | #175 | #139 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #182 | #93 |
| Kansas | 16 | #206 | #127 |
| Virginia | 40 | #206 | #134 |
| Michigan | 44 | #207 | #185 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #209 | #138 |
| North Carolina | 51 | #213 | #187 |
| South Carolina | 22 | #221 | #231 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #225 | #154 |
| Kentucky | 20 | #228 | #234 |
| Montana | 5 | #231 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #235 | #91 |
| Utah | 19 | #244 | #202 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #257 | #185 |
| Idaho | 9 | #262 | #202 |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #266 | #176 |
| Missouri | 23 | #270 | #261 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #274 | #225 |
| Ohio | 39 | #284 | #225 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #291 | #198 |
| Iowa | 11 | #310 | #114 |
| Georgia | 34 | #311 | #254 |
| Indiana | 19 | #366 | #298 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #376 | #289 |
| Alabama | 13 | #380 | #319 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #569 | #311 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,746 | #177 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,826 | #167 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,753 | #164 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,858 | #156 | 5 | #13,094 |
| 2021 | 1,917 | #146 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,771 | #157 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,059 | #134 | 5 | #12,896 |
| 2018 | 2,068 | #139 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,036 | #145 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,120 | #145 | 5 | #12,961 |
| 2015 | 2,177 | #149 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,331 | #144 | 5 | #12,799 |
| 2013 | 2,341 | #136 | 7 | #10,064 |
| 2012 | 2,383 | #135 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,413 | #128 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,658 | #116 | 6 | #11,268 |
| 2009 | 2,988 | #109 | — | — |
| 2008 | 3,489 | #97 | 6 | #11,603 |
| 2007 | 3,864 | #87 | 5 | #13,091 |
| 2006 | 4,009 | #87 | 10 | #7,642 |
| 2005 | 3,611 | #89 | 9 | #7,890 |
| 2004 | 3,638 | #88 | 14 | #5,593 |
| 2003 | 3,853 | #83 | 10 | #6,917 |
| 2002 | 3,651 | #85 | 9 | #7,267 |
| 2001 | 3,491 | #88 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2000 | 3,448 | #94 | 12 | #5,707 |
| 1999 | 3,405 | #97 | 14 | #4,869 |
| 1998 | 2,827 | #118 | 9 | #6,509 |
| 1997 | 2,259 | #141 | 7 | #7,590 |
| 1996 | 1,470 | #197 | 11 | #5,324 |
| 1995 | 1,297 | #217 | 12 | #4,915 |
| 1994 | 1,131 | #244 | 12 | #4,912 |
| 1993 | 1,076 | #257 | 20 | #3,297 |
| 1992 | 1,053 | #267 | 22 | #3,049 |
| 1991 | 801 | #330 | 17 | #3,525 |
| 1990 | 785 | #339 | 18 | #3,367 |
| 1989 | 613 | #404 | 19 | #3,141 |
| 1988 | 558 | #419 | 8 | #5,410 |
| 1987 | 494 | #445 | 21 | #2,593 |
| 1986 | 484 | #447 | 12 | #3,728 |
| 1985 | 515 | #428 | 18 | #2,761 |
| 1984 | 419 | #483 | 13 | #3,351 |
| 1983 | 430 | #469 | 15 | #2,982 |
| 1982 | 487 | #442 | 8 | #4,769 |
| 1981 | 466 | #459 | 14 | #3,111 |
| 1980 | 496 | #435 | 12 | #3,495 |
| 1979 | 424 | #481 | 12 | #3,436 |
| 1978 | 365 | #511 | 15 | #2,846 |
| 1977 | 392 | #486 | 15 | #2,830 |
| 1976 | 411 | #464 | 20 | #2,280 |
| 1975 | 408 | #462 | 20 | #2,246 |
| 1974 | 381 | #473 | 9 | #3,678 |
| 1973 | 352 | #494 | 7 | #4,257 |
| 1972 | 356 | #498 | 10 | #3,234 |
| 1971 | 436 | #464 | 19 | #2,160 |
| 1970 | 415 | #483 | 18 | #2,164 |
| 1969 | 384 | #496 | 11 | #2,765 |
| 1968 | 381 | #497 | 11 | #2,648 |
| 1967 | 352 | #505 | 13 | #2,286 |
| 1966 | 354 | #497 | 10 | #2,702 |
| 1965 | 327 | #527 | 16 | #2,029 |
| 1964 | 390 | #493 | 15 | #2,156 |
| 1963 | 380 | #499 | 13 | #2,361 |
| 1962 | 393 | #490 | 10 | #2,749 |
| 1961 | 366 | #511 | 20 | #1,843 |
| 1960 | 391 | #492 | 15 | #2,165 |
| 1959 | 390 | #492 | 20 | #1,833 |
| 1958 | 359 | #507 | 15 | #2,128 |
| 1957 | 440 | #449 | 13 | #2,318 |
| 1956 | 405 | #456 | 25 | #1,585 |
| 1955 | 450 | #417 | 15 | #2,086 |
| 1954 | 368 | #461 | 17 | #1,923 |
| 1953 | 480 | #390 | 18 | #1,864 |
| 1952 | 419 | #411 | 18 | #1,826 |
| 1951 | 368 | #438 | 18 | #1,803 |
| 1950 | 362 | #421 | 15 | #1,972 |
| 1949 | 394 | #402 | 25 | #1,478 |
| 1948 | 374 | #409 | 32 | #1,286 |
| 1947 | 378 | #415 | 23 | #1,575 |
| 1946 | 353 | #410 | 29 | #1,314 |
| 1945 | 275 | #430 | 20 | #1,510 |
| 1944 | 309 | #408 | 21 | #1,504 |
| 1943 | 356 | #387 | 22 | #1,507 |
| 1942 | 333 | #391 | 34 | #1,203 |
| 1941 | 335 | #367 | 26 | #1,317 |
| 1940 | 328 | #360 | 27 | #1,298 |
| 1939 | 340 | #345 | 18 | #1,604 |
| 1938 | 350 | #343 | 28 | #1,259 |
| 1937 | 399 | #310 | 22 | #1,469 |
| 1936 | 376 | #312 | 35 | #1,107 |
| 1935 | 425 | #292 | 27 | #1,309 |
| 1934 | 430 | #300 | 25 | #1,370 |
| 1933 | 450 | #284 | 20 | #1,565 |
| 1932 | 516 | #272 | 21 | #1,559 |
| 1931 | 561 | #258 | 33 | #1,205 |
| 1930 | 595 | #257 | 33 | #1,243 |
| 1929 | 672 | #235 | 35 | #1,182 |
| 1928 | 651 | #248 | 37 | #1,176 |
| 1927 | 731 | #239 | 40 | #1,139 |
| 1926 | 744 | #238 | 31 | #1,311 |
| 1925 | 900 | #212 | 38 | #1,155 |
| 1924 | 911 | #215 | 36 | #1,211 |
| 1923 | 855 | #221 | 15 | #2,174 |
| 1922 | 888 | #218 | 22 | #1,672 |
| 1921 | 971 | #207 | 32 | #1,308 |
| 1920 | 992 | #199 | 29 | #1,361 |
| 1919 | 957 | #196 | 24 | #1,506 |
| 1918 | 1,041 | #190 | 19 | #1,789 |
| 1917 | 931 | #198 | 17 | #1,861 |
| 1916 | 1,000 | #183 | 11 | #2,459 |
| 1915 | 943 | #177 | 13 | #2,117 |
| 1914 | 747 | #179 | 9 | #2,354 |
| 1913 | 657 | #177 | 6 | #2,638 |
| 1912 | 556 | #175 | 10 | #1,679 |
| 1911 | 447 | #168 | 10 | #1,158 |
| 1910 | 389 | #176 | 10 | #1,078 |
| 1909 | 356 | #169 | — | — |
| 1908 | 351 | #169 | — | — |
| 1907 | 326 | #170 | — | — |
| 1906 | 317 | #169 | 5 | #1,328 |
| 1905 | 292 | #176 | — | — |
| 1904 | 271 | #180 | 6 | #1,137 |
| 1903 | 257 | #180 | — | — |
| 1902 | 256 | #179 | — | — |
| 1901 | 214 | #195 | — | — |
| 1900 | 286 | #185 | — | — |
| 1899 | 243 | #177 | — | — |
| 1898 | 252 | #184 | — | — |
| 1897 | 210 | #188 | — | — |
| 1896 | 232 | #179 | — | — |
| 1895 | 212 | #184 | — | — |
| 1894 | 241 | #168 | — | — |
| 1893 | 189 | #186 | — | — |
| 1892 | 158 | #200 | — | — |
| 1891 | 150 | #189 | — | — |
| 1890 | 160 | #186 | — | — |
| 1889 | 153 | #186 | — | — |
| 1888 | 144 | #187 | — | — |
| 1887 | 109 | #192 | — | — |
| 1886 | 131 | #177 | — | — |
| 1885 | 102 | #185 | — | — |
| 1884 | 102 | #176 | — | — |
| 1883 | 83 | #182 | — | — |
| 1882 | 72 | #194 | — | — |
| 1881 | 76 | #174 | — | — |
| 1880 | 81 | #161 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).