Isabelle Girl
How popular is Isabelle?
#166 girl name in 2025
1,825 baby girls were named Isabelle in the US in 2025, making it the 166th most popular girl name.
Isabelle popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #166 for girls (▲ 5 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,825 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-43% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #94 in 2015, #121 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2007 (4,106 girls) |
| Highest rank | #79 in 2007 |
| 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 |
Isabelle 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 Isabelle is most popular
Babies named Isabelle per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Vermont: 6.0 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- New Hampshire: 4.8 per 1,000 (88 girls)
- North Dakota: 4.0 per 1,000 (53 girls)
- Alaska: 3.1 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- District of Columbia: 3.0 per 1,000 (36 girls)
Isabelle by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,092 | #163 |
| 1890s | 1,890 | #173 |
| 1900s | 2,514 | #179 |
| 1910s | 7,255 | #176 |
| 1920s | 6,964 | #213 |
| 1930s | 2,761 | #316 |
| 1940s | 1,470 | #504 |
| 1950s | 1,028 | #809 |
| 1960s | 817 | #1,066 |
| 1970s | 465 | #1,594 |
| 1980s | 692 | #1,175 |
| 1990s | 7,276 | #162 |
| 2000s | 32,871 | #79 |
| 2010s | 28,507 | #92 |
| 2020s | 12,160 | #117 |
Girl names about as popular as Isabelle
Questions
- Is Isabelle a boy or girl name?
- Isabelle is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Isabelle were girls.
- How popular is the name Isabelle?
- 1,825 baby girls were named Isabelle in the US in 2025, making it the 166th most popular girl name.
- When was Isabelle most popular?
- Isabelle peaked in 2007, when 4,106 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #79 in 2007.
- How many people are named Isabelle?
- 107,782 babies have been named Isabelle in the US since 1880. We estimate about 84,801 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 17.
- Where is Isabelle most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Isabelle was most common in Vermont, at 6.0 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.