Meaning not yet researched.
Isela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,017 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,017 in 1998; #1,935 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,935 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,017.
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Isela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,017 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 196 (1998).
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Isela, making it the 1,935th most common girls’ name of the year, down 75 places from #1,860 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 108 girls named Isela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,017, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 196. For comparison, it was #2,533 in 2015 and #2,710 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isela in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 7 babies. In all, 5,925 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,312 babies named Isela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 937 US girls were named Isela; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 113. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isela ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #603 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Izola, Izella and Isola 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Izola (1,119), Izella (423), Isola (293), Isella (281), Ysela (192), Icela (166), Izela (143), Iceola (10), Issela (10), Esila (5).
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 Isela 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 11 | #603 | — |
| California | 26 | #1,038 | #1,359 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,134 | #1,436 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 2008 | 126 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 2005 | 189 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 2001 | 128 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 2000 | 150 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1998 | 196 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1997 | 124 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1994 | 120 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1981 | 97 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1979 | 96 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1977 | 98 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1976 | 110 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1975 | 115 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1974 | 98 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1972 | 89 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,039 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,319 | — | — |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,660 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,965 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,700 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,034 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,059 | — | — |
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).