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Isabela

Gender
Girl
Say it
iz-a-BEL-a
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#1,247 for girls
US rank, 2025
#664 for girls

Isabela is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God is an oath”. In 2025 it ranked 1,247th for girls in the UK (27 babies) and 664th for girls in the US (426 babies).

What does Isabela mean?

Hebrew: Spanish, Portuguese and Polish spelling of Isabella

“my God is an oath”

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Is Isabela a girl's or a boy's name?

Isabela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 girls in the UK and 426 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Isabela in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,247th among girls
Babies in 2025
27 about 1 in 10,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 15% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were named Isabela, making it the 1,247th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 963rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 40 girls.

Half of all the girls named Isabela in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,976 girls in the UK were given Isabela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #10, up from #1,247 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,197th in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 40 in 20232025
Isabela in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202527#1,247
202433#1,084
202340#949
202228#1,248
202126#1,323
202039#963
201925#1,368
201823#1,468
201730#1,213
201630#1,209
201533#1,132
201423#1,452
201326#1,365
201230#1,205
201127#1,272
201025#1,344
200921#1,449
200826#1,215
200719#1,477
200615#1,681
200519#1,332
200413#1,722
20034#3,768
20024#3,556
20019#1,974
20003#4,074
19995#2,912
19980–
19975#2,896

How popular is Isabela in the US?

Rank in 2025
664th among girls
Babies in 2025
426 about 1 in 3,800 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 31% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 426 girls in the US were named Isabela, making it the 664th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 835th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 695 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.

Half of all the girls named Isabela in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 11,737 girls in the US were given Isabela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #6, up from #664 for this spelling alone.

1982Busiest: 695 in 20042025
Isabela in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025426#664
2024456#644
2023446#659
2022510#587
2021330#836
2020328#835
2019357#776
2018332#816
2017336#812
2016351#813
2015370#763
2014389#721
2013427#670
2012462#619
2011426#665
2010511#571
2009623#493
2008575#535
2007634#504
2006676#467
2005539#534
2004695#442
2003610#483
2002403#632
2001322#741
2000259#849
1999223#937
1998157#1,181
1997115#1,440
199682#1,790
199575#1,858
199459#2,227
199346#2,634
199229#3,674
199128#3,716
199032#3,359
198919#4,664
19886#10,381
19878#7,982
19860–
19856#9,304
19847#8,149
19837#8,045
19826#9,235

Nicknames for Isabela

Names like Isabela

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Isabela

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Isabela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/isabela, updated 20 October 2026.