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Isabella

Girls' name · Current

Living in the US
~406,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#7 among girls
Births in 2025
10,666 417,454 since 1880
Typical age
14 years, median

Isabella popularity over time

Isabella rank by birth year, 1880–2025Isabella ranked #215 in 1880 and #7 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1, in 2009.#1#10#100#1,000#7best #1 in 200918901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Isabella was used most in 2010, when 22,966 babies were given the name. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Isabella has spent 28 years inside the national top 100.

The 2025 position is #7, on 10,666 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 32%.

Babies named Isabella per yearPeaks at 22,966 births in 2010.22,966 in 2010018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Isabella?

About 406,500 people named Isabella are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 417,454 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Isabella?

Half of living Isabellas are older than 14, half younger. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Isabella a current name.

Your Isabella

Ages of living people named IsabellaHalf of living Isabellas are older than 14 and half younger.median 14020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Isabella is most common

Relative to births, Rhode Island carries 2.1× the national share of Isabellas. Delaware, Florida and Nevada follow.

Where Isabella is used more than average5 states use the name Isabella more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: 1.7× the national rateNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.1× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 2.0× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 1.6× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: 1.7× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Isabella is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Rhode Island 459 2.1×
Delaware 400 2.0×
Florida 11,153 1.7×
Nevada 1,356 1.7×
New Mexico 747 1.6×

Isabella in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Isabella ranked #10 in 2025 on 1,690 births.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Isabella comes from

Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Isabella

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Isabella Rossellini Italian-American actress 1952 67
Isabella of Austria Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; 1501–1526 47
Isabella Bird British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist 1831–1904 40
Isabella d'Este Italian noble 1474–1539 40
Isabella Beeton British journalist, editor, publisher, and writer 1836–1865 35
Isabella Karle American physical chemist 1921–2017 28
Isabella di Morra Italian poet 1520–1546 27
Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan Italian duchess of Milan 1470–1524 26
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 305 in 1991 to 508 in 1992 — 1.7 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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