Meaning not yet researched.
Isabell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 87 in 2025. Its best rank was #314 in 1903.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #314 in 1903; #2,144 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isabell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,144 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1903, at #314.
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Isabell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 87 girls in 2025. Peak: #314 in 1903 · most girls in one year: 388 (2006).
In 2025, 87 US girls were named Isabell, making it the 2,144th most common girls’ name of the year, up 146 places from #2,290 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 81 girls named Isabell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #314, reached in 1903. The most girls given the name in a single year was 388, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,288 in 2015 and #1,177 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isabell in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 22 babies with the name. In all, 15,279 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,884 babies named Isabell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,180 US girls were named Isabell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,474 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isabell ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,550 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isabel (133,977 babies since 1880), Isabelle (107,782 babies since 1880), Izabelle (4,603 babies since 1880) and Izabel (3,814 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Izzabell are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Izzabell (166).
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 Isabell 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,550 | #1,149 |
| New York | 6 | #1,914 | #1,533 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,494 | #1,211 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 2021 | 135 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 2016 | 159 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 2015 | 187 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 2014 | 199 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2013 | 210 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2012 | 228 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 2011 | 261 | #981 | — | — |
| 2010 | 324 | #830 | — | — |
| 2009 | 341 | #827 | — | — |
| 2008 | 366 | #796 | — | — |
| 2007 | 363 | #794 | — | — |
| 2006 | 388 | #724 | — | — |
| 2005 | 281 | #894 | — | — |
| 2004 | 287 | #856 | — | — |
| 2003 | 260 | #915 | — | — |
| 2002 | 243 | #919 | — | — |
| 2001 | 193 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1999 | 174 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,553 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,936 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,735 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,629 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,783 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,317 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,543 | — | — |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,693 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,066 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,762 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,204 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,137 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,223 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,832 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1951 | 60 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1950 | 62 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1947 | 77 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1945 | 51 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1944 | 66 | #956 | — | — |
| 1943 | 74 | #904 | — | — |
| 1942 | 75 | #908 | — | — |
| 1941 | 75 | #842 | — | — |
| 1940 | 77 | #812 | — | — |
| 1939 | 96 | #697 | — | — |
| 1938 | 87 | #740 | — | — |
| 1937 | 95 | #701 | — | — |
| 1936 | 106 | #641 | — | — |
| 1935 | 101 | #655 | — | — |
| 1934 | 96 | #683 | — | — |
| 1933 | 117 | #601 | — | — |
| 1932 | 139 | #553 | — | — |
| 1931 | 126 | #590 | — | — |
| 1930 | 171 | #514 | — | — |
| 1929 | 181 | #501 | 5 | #4,258 |
| 1928 | 172 | #532 | — | — |
| 1927 | 208 | #484 | — | — |
| 1926 | 221 | #467 | — | — |
| 1925 | 237 | #450 | — | — |
| 1924 | 282 | #412 | — | — |
| 1923 | 234 | #445 | — | — |
| 1922 | 233 | #446 | — | — |
| 1921 | 271 | #411 | — | — |
| 1920 | 249 | #423 | — | — |
| 1919 | 274 | #391 | — | — |
| 1918 | 281 | #391 | — | — |
| 1917 | 293 | #369 | — | — |
| 1916 | 220 | #422 | — | — |
| 1915 | 249 | #384 | — | — |
| 1914 | 210 | #365 | — | — |
| 1913 | 151 | #395 | — | — |
| 1912 | 160 | #364 | — | — |
| 1911 | 120 | #369 | — | — |
| 1910 | 129 | #351 | — | — |
| 1909 | 105 | #353 | — | — |
| 1908 | 104 | #353 | — | — |
| 1907 | 88 | #375 | — | — |
| 1906 | 84 | #371 | — | — |
| 1905 | 100 | #340 | — | — |
| 1904 | 73 | #386 | — | — |
| 1903 | 99 | #314 | — | — |
| 1902 | 81 | #356 | — | — |
| 1901 | 70 | #361 | — | — |
| 1900 | 92 | #350 | — | — |
| 1899 | 73 | #350 | — | — |
| 1898 | 87 | #334 | — | — |
| 1897 | 64 | #367 | — | — |
| 1896 | 58 | #374 | — | — |
| 1895 | 61 | #358 | — | — |
| 1894 | 60 | #360 | — | — |
| 1893 | 56 | #361 | — | — |
| 1892 | 53 | #366 | — | — |
| 1891 | 41 | #390 | — | — |
| 1890 | 51 | #358 | — | — |
| 1889 | 58 | #322 | — | — |
| 1888 | 46 | #353 | — | — |
| 1887 | 35 | #364 | — | — |
| 1886 | 41 | #334 | — | — |
| 1885 | 39 | #325 | — | — |
| 1884 | 35 | #334 | — | — |
| 1883 | 25 | #366 | — | — |
| 1882 | 22 | #380 | — | — |
| 1881 | 22 | #352 | — | — |
| 1880 | 22 | #343 | — | — |
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).