Isabel
Girl nameIsabel has been given to 133,977 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 2006 and currently ranks #177 for girls (2025).
Meaning & origin /ˈɪzəbɛl/
From Spanish Isabel, from Old Occitan Elisabel, from Latin Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), from Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”). Doublet of Elizabeth.
Origin: Hebrew
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Popularity over time births per year, 1880–2025
Total babies
133,977
Peak year
2006 (4,019 babies)
Rank in 2025
#177 for girls
First recorded
1880
10-year trend
▼ -20%
Gender split
99% girls / 1% boys
Famous people named Isabel
Isabella I of Castile
Queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–15
Isabel Allende
Chilean writer (born 1942)
Isabel Martínez de Perón
First female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
Rose of Lima
Dominican saint from Peru
Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).
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