Meaning not yet researched.
Isabella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10,666 in 2025. Its best rank was #1 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1 in 2010; #7 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isabella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1.
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Isabella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10,666 girls in 2025. Peak: #1 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 22,936 (2010).
In 2025, 10,666 US girls were named Isabella, making it the 7th most common girls’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 144 fewer than the 10,810 girls named Isabella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 22,936. For comparison, it was #5 in 2015 and #1,243 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isabella in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 50 babies with the name. In all, 417,454 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 170,795 babies named Isabella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 125,751 US girls were named Isabella; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 15,263. In 2025 that was about 1 in 151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isabella ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #3 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 51 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 Isabel (133,977 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Esabella, Yzabella and Ezabella are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bella, Belle, Ib, Issy, Nib and Nibby.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Esabella (730), Yzabella (572), Ezabella (446), Isabellah (359), Izabellah (350), Isobella (243), Iszabella (197), Ysabela (129), Isebella (92), Issabela (76), Izsabella (57), Izebella (50), 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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,559 | #3 | #4 |
| Delaware | 35 | #3 | #11 |
| Florida | 992 | #3 | #1 |
| Arkansas | 103 | #4 | #4 |
| Nevada | 113 | #4 | #5 |
| New Jersey | 368 | #5 | #2 |
| Georgia | 342 | #5 | #5 |
| Massachusetts | 258 | #5 | #4 |
| Arizona | 288 | #5 | #5 |
| New York | 629 | #6 | #4 |
| Virginia | 293 | #6 | #7 |
| California | 1,506 | #6 | #5 |
| North Carolina | 342 | #6 | #4 |
| Rhode Island | 33 | #6 | #5 |
| Pennsylvania | 328 | #6 | #5 |
| Oklahoma | 120 | #7 | #4 |
| Connecticut | 111 | #7 | #4 |
| New Mexico | 56 | #7 | #3 |
| Maryland | 175 | #8 | #7 |
| Illinois | 338 | #8 | #5 |
| South Carolina | 139 | #9 | #6 |
| Colorado | 172 | #9 | #9 |
| Washington | 208 | #10 | #7 |
| Michigan | 234 | #11 | #7 |
| Tennessee | 191 | #12 | #5 |
| Indiana | 167 | #13 | #9 |
| Hawaii | 25 | #14 | #6 |
| Ohio | 270 | #15 | #6 |
| Idaho | 48 | #18 | #17 |
| Oregon | 82 | #18 | #11 |
| Iowa | 72 | #19 | #13 |
| District of Columbia | 20 | #19 | #21 |
| Kansas | 73 | #19 | #10 |
| Missouri | 136 | #19 | #14 |
| Louisiana | 85 | #19 | #4 |
| Maine | 27 | #20 | #9 |
| New Hampshire | 34 | #21 | #7 |
| Alabama | 100 | #23 | #7 |
| Kentucky | 96 | #23 | #5 |
| Wisconsin | 108 | #24 | #16 |
| Minnesota | 110 | #25 | #16 |
| Alaska | 15 | #28 | #37 |
| Utah | 93 | #29 | #29 |
| South Dakota | 19 | #31 | #13 |
| Nebraska | 38 | #31 | #12 |
| Mississippi | 41 | #34 | #17 |
| Vermont | 10 | #36 | #5 |
| Montana | 17 | #36 | #12 |
| North Dakota | 16 | #43 | #17 |
| West Virginia | 25 | #46 | #6 |
| Wyoming | 6 | #68 | #51 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10,666 | #7 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10,810 | #7 | 8 | #9,342 |
| 2023 | 10,871 | #7 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 2022 | 11,761 | #6 | 13 | #6,618 |
| 2021 | 11,309 | #7 | 9 | #8,433 |
| 2020 | 12,226 | #7 | 12 | #6,776 |
| 2019 | 13,407 | #5 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2018 | 14,575 | #4 | 15 | #5,880 |
| 2017 | 15,263 | #4 | 12 | #6,858 |
| 2016 | 14,863 | #5 | 12 | #6,883 |
| 2015 | 15,667 | #5 | 21 | #4,609 |
| 2014 | 17,136 | #4 | 22 | #4,445 |
| 2013 | 17,689 | #4 | 18 | #5,049 |
| 2012 | 19,138 | #3 | 18 | #5,114 |
| 2011 | 19,931 | #2 | 26 | #3,932 |
| 2010 | 22,936 | #1 | 30 | #3,571 |
| 2009 | 22,321 | #1 | 27 | #3,858 |
| 2008 | 18,629 | #2 | 27 | #3,864 |
| 2007 | 19,143 | #2 | 21 | #4,554 |
| 2006 | 18,231 | #4 | 18 | #4,940 |
| 2005 | 15,197 | #6 | 16 | #5,126 |
| 2004 | 15,021 | #7 | 49 | #2,326 |
| 2003 | 13,781 | #12 | 18 | #4,501 |
| 2002 | 12,171 | #14 | 11 | #6,250 |
| 2001 | 8,835 | #28 | 6 | #9,734 |
| 2000 | 6,242 | #45 | 8 | #7,730 |
| 1999 | 5,060 | #60 | 7 | #8,191 |
| 1998 | 3,851 | #84 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,862 | #114 | 5 | #9,848 |
| 1996 | 2,112 | #151 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,739 | #174 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,277 | #222 | — | — |
| 1993 | 831 | #318 | — | — |
| 1992 | 508 | #488 | — | — |
| 1991 | 305 | #699 | — | — |
| 1990 | 217 | #890 | — | — |
| 1989 | 140 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,307 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,659 | — | — |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1958 | 53 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1957 | 65 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1951 | 65 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1950 | 55 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1948 | 77 | #996 | — | — |
| 1947 | 82 | #977 | — | — |
| 1946 | 74 | #971 | — | — |
| 1945 | 64 | #969 | — | — |
| 1944 | 75 | #884 | — | — |
| 1943 | 90 | #818 | — | — |
| 1942 | 72 | #922 | — | — |
| 1941 | 96 | #722 | — | — |
| 1940 | 76 | #818 | — | — |
| 1939 | 86 | #737 | — | — |
| 1938 | 100 | #689 | — | — |
| 1937 | 105 | #664 | — | — |
| 1936 | 80 | #751 | — | — |
| 1935 | 93 | #695 | — | — |
| 1934 | 90 | #704 | — | — |
| 1933 | 116 | #603 | — | — |
| 1932 | 128 | #581 | — | — |
| 1931 | 139 | #556 | — | — |
| 1930 | 142 | #572 | — | — |
| 1929 | 155 | #549 | — | — |
| 1928 | 178 | #519 | — | — |
| 1927 | 182 | #523 | — | — |
| 1926 | 187 | #511 | — | — |
| 1925 | 205 | #489 | — | — |
| 1924 | 231 | #458 | — | — |
| 1923 | 228 | #454 | — | — |
| 1922 | 241 | #429 | — | — |
| 1921 | 236 | #449 | — | — |
| 1920 | 252 | #420 | — | — |
| 1919 | 274 | #392 | — | — |
| 1918 | 254 | #411 | — | — |
| 1917 | 237 | #410 | — | — |
| 1916 | 246 | #401 | — | — |
| 1915 | 242 | #387 | — | — |
| 1914 | 187 | #389 | — | — |
| 1913 | 165 | #375 | — | — |
| 1912 | 161 | #362 | — | — |
| 1911 | 129 | #353 | — | — |
| 1910 | 151 | #312 | — | — |
| 1909 | 97 | #375 | — | — |
| 1908 | 112 | #336 | — | — |
| 1907 | 126 | #310 | — | — |
| 1906 | 110 | #320 | — | — |
| 1905 | 105 | #329 | — | — |
| 1904 | 88 | #348 | — | — |
| 1903 | 96 | #317 | — | — |
| 1902 | 84 | #346 | — | — |
| 1901 | 92 | #315 | — | — |
| 1900 | 128 | #290 | — | — |
| 1899 | 94 | #306 | — | — |
| 1898 | 86 | #336 | — | — |
| 1897 | 86 | #314 | — | — |
| 1896 | 88 | #311 | — | — |
| 1895 | 90 | #306 | — | — |
| 1894 | 92 | #288 | — | — |
| 1893 | 109 | #252 | — | — |
| 1892 | 88 | #285 | — | — |
| 1891 | 79 | #279 | — | — |
| 1890 | 91 | #263 | — | — |
| 1889 | 80 | #263 | — | — |
| 1888 | 63 | #299 | — | — |
| 1887 | 58 | #280 | — | — |
| 1886 | 80 | #229 | — | — |
| 1885 | 48 | #291 | — | — |
| 1884 | 76 | #216 | — | — |
| 1883 | 54 | #245 | — | — |
| 1882 | 44 | #263 | — | — |
| 1881 | 50 | #218 | — | — |
| 1880 | 50 | #215 | — | — |
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).