Isabella Girl
How popular is Isabella?
#7 girl name in 2025
10,666 baby girls were named Isabella in the US in 2025, making it the 7th most popular girl name.
Isabella popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #7 for girls |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 10,666 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-32% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #5 in 2015, #7 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2010 (22,936 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1 in 2009 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Isabella counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Isabella family of names ranked #9 for girls in 2025 (#7 the year before), with 11,732 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Isabella | 10,666 | 91% |
| Izabella | 532 | 5% |
| Isabela | 426 | 4% |
| Izzabella | 28 | 0% |
| Issabella | 43 | 0% |
| Izabela | 37 | 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 Isabella is most popular
Babies named Isabella per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Delaware: 15.9 per 1,000 (180 girls)
- Rhode Island: 15.0 per 1,000 (188 girls)
- Nevada: 13.4 per 1,000 (624 girls)
- Wyoming: 13.4 per 1,000 (57 girls)
- New Mexico: 13.0 per 1,000 (316 girls)
Isabella by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 603 | #215 |
| 1890s | 903 | #251 |
| 1900s | 1,038 | #290 |
| 1910s | 2,046 | #311 |
| 1920s | 2,095 | #418 |
| 1930s | 1,079 | #554 |
| 1940s | 774 | #719 |
| 1950s | 590 | #1,159 |
| 1960s | 429 | #1,522 |
| 1970s | 296 | #2,001 |
| 1980s | 567 | #1,165 |
| 1990s | 18,762 | #60 |
| 2000s | 149,571 | #1 |
| 2010s | 170,605 | #1 |
| 2020s | 67,643 | #6 |
Girl names about as popular as Isabella
Questions
- Is Isabella a boy or girl name?
- Isabella is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Isabella were girls.
- How popular is the name Isabella?
- 10,666 baby girls were named Isabella in the US in 2025, making it the 7th most popular girl name.
- When was Isabella most popular?
- Isabella peaked in 2010, when 22,936 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1, held for 2 years starting in 2009.
- How many people are named Isabella?
- 417,454 babies have been named Isabella in the US since 1880. We estimate about 406,741 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Isabella most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Isabella was most common in Delaware, at 15.9 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.