Isabella

What Isabella means

Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”

form of Isabel || From Spanish Isabel, from Old Occitan Elisabel, from Latin Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), from Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Isabella” (revision 93671093) and “Isabel” (revision 93568485), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Isabella?

US: Steady: #5 in 2015, #7 now. England & Wales: Steady: #8 in 2015, #10 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2010, when 22,936 girls got the name (#1 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 151 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 150 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 157 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (15.52 per 1,000 girls), RI (13.46 per 1,000 girls), NV (12.28 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Isabella is #7 in the US and #10 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Isabella were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Izabella532 US · 41 E&W
• Isabela426 US · 27 E&W
• Izabela37 US · 26 E&W
• Issabella43 US · 7 E&W
• Izzabella28 US
• Isobella5 US · 17 E&W
• Esabella16 US
• Ezabella11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Isabella

Girls

• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*

For a brother

• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Elisha#788Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys
• Johan#572Variant of Joan, meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Jonas#599“dove”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Isabella’s. Rank is US 2025.