Meaning not yet researched.
Isabela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 426 in 2025. Its best rank was #442 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #442 in 2004; #664 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isabela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#664 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #442.
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Isabela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 426 girls in 2025. Peak: #442 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 695 (2004).
In 2025, 426 US girls were named Isabela, making it the 664th most common girls’ name of the year, down 20 places from #644 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 456 girls named Isabela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #442, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 695. For comparison, it was #764 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isabela in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 6 babies. In all, 12,698 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,336 babies named Isabela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,872 US girls were named Isabela; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 510. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,773 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isabela ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #287 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isabella (417,454 babies since 1880), Isabel (133,977 babies since 1880), Isabelle (107,782 babies since 1880) and Izabela (1,835 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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.
No nicknames listed for Isabela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 11 | #287 | #528 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #340 | — |
| Florida | 45 | #420 | #598 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #513 | #740 |
| Maryland | 10 | #524 | #949 |
| California | 62 | #534 | #615 |
| Alabama | 9 | #545 | #742 |
| Illinois | 18 | #554 | #616 |
| Texas | 54 | #587 | #559 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #587 | #462 |
| Kansas | 5 | #616 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #626 | #997 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #642 | #734 |
| Utah | 6 | #651 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #652 | — |
| New York | 25 | #667 | #764 |
| Oregon | 5 | #672 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #714 | #472 |
| Georgia | 14 | #725 | #1,000 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #736 | #786 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #790 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #886 | #843 |
| Colorado | 5 | #974 | #423 |
| Washington | 6 | #975 | #796 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,104 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,338 | #1,210 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 426 | #664 | — | — |
| 2024 | 456 | #644 | — | — |
| 2023 | 446 | #660 | — | — |
| 2022 | 510 | #589 | — | — |
| 2021 | 330 | #836 | — | — |
| 2020 | 328 | #835 | — | — |
| 2019 | 357 | #776 | — | — |
| 2018 | 332 | #817 | — | — |
| 2017 | 336 | #812 | — | — |
| 2016 | 351 | #814 | — | — |
| 2015 | 370 | #764 | — | — |
| 2014 | 389 | #721 | — | — |
| 2013 | 427 | #670 | — | — |
| 2012 | 462 | #620 | — | — |
| 2011 | 426 | #665 | — | — |
| 2010 | 511 | #571 | — | — |
| 2009 | 623 | #493 | — | — |
| 2008 | 575 | #535 | — | — |
| 2007 | 634 | #504 | — | — |
| 2006 | 676 | #468 | — | — |
| 2005 | 539 | #534 | — | — |
| 2004 | 695 | #442 | — | — |
| 2003 | 610 | #483 | — | — |
| 2002 | 403 | #633 | — | — |
| 2001 | 322 | #742 | — | — |
| 2000 | 259 | #850 | — | — |
| 1999 | 223 | #940 | — | — |
| 1998 | 157 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1997 | 115 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,712 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,734 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,852 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,270 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,748 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,483 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,349 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,641 | — | — |
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).