Isabel Girl
How popular is Isabel?
#176 girl name in 2025
1,746 baby girls were named Isabel in the US in 2025, making it the 176th most popular girl name.
Isabel popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #176 for girls (▼ 9 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,746 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-20% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #149 in 2015, #157 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (4,009 girls) |
| Highest rank | #83 in 2003 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Isabel counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Isabelle family of names ranked #80 for girls in 2025 (#82 the year before), with 3,795 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Isabelle | 1,825 | 48% |
| Isabel | 1,746 | 46% |
| Isabell | 87 | 2% |
| Izabelle | 69 | 2% |
| Izabel | 47 | 1% |
| Izabell | 14 | 0% |
| Izzabelle | 7 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Isabel is most popular
Babies named Isabel per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 3.7 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- South Dakota: 2.5 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Massachusetts: 2.2 per 1,000 (269 girls)
- Oregon: 2.2 per 1,000 (140 girls)
- New Mexico: 2.1 per 1,000 (52 girls)
Isabel by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,053 | #161 |
| 1890s | 2,047 | #168 |
| 1900s | 2,926 | #168 |
| 1910s | 7,668 | #168 |
| 1920s | 8,315 | #199 |
| 1930s | 4,442 | #257 |
| 1940s | 3,435 | #359 |
| 1950s | 4,041 | #388 |
| 1960s | 3,718 | #490 |
| 1970s | 3,940 | #461 |
| 1980s | 4,962 | #404 |
| 1990s | 16,104 | #97 |
| 2000s | 36,042 | #83 |
| 2010s | 22,586 | #116 |
| 2020s | 10,871 | #146 |
Girl names about as popular as Isabel
Questions
- Is Isabel a boy or girl name?
- Isabel is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Isabel were girls.
- How popular is the name Isabel?
- 1,746 baby girls were named Isabel in the US in 2025, making it the 176th most popular girl name.
- When was Isabel most popular?
- Isabel peaked in 2006, when 4,009 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #83 in 2003.
- How many people are named Isabel?
- 133,977 babies have been named Isabel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 104,603 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 22.
- Where is Isabel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Isabel was most common in District of Columbia, at 3.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.