Meaning not yet researched.
Isobel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #817 in 1916.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #817 in 1916; #2,307 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isobel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,307 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1916, at #817.
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Isobel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #817 in 1916 · most girls in one year: 129 (2016).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Isobel, making it the 2,307th most common girls’ name of the year, up 29 places from #2,336 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 79 girls named Isobel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #817, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 129, in 2016. For comparison, it was #2,098 in 2015 and #5,612 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isobel in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 5 babies. In all, 3,802 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 981 babies named Isobel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 944 US girls were named Isobel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isobel ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,880 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), Isabell (15,279 babies since 1880) and Izabel (3,814 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.
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 Isobel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,880 | #2,381 |
| New York | 5 | #2,221 | #1,680 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,508 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 2015 | 93 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 2007 | 110 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,145 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,164 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,507 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,017 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,197 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,104 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,628 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,063 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,596 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,487 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,949 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,838 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,612 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,014 | — | — |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,853 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1925 | 49 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1921 | 58 | #978 | — | — |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1918 | 40 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1916 | 69 | #817 | — | — |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1914 | 42 | #908 | — | — |
| 1913 | 29 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1912 | 35 | #852 | — | — |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1908 | 21 | #863 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1906 | 18 | #885 | — | — |
| 1905 | 17 | #910 | — | — |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1903 | 13 | #999 | — | — |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,581 | — | — |
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).