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Issabella

Gender
Girl
Say it
iz-a-BEL-a
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#3,409 for girls
US rank, 2025
#3,516 for girls

Issabella is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God is an oath”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 3,516th for girls in the US (43 babies).

What does Issabella mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Isabella; Latin and Italian form of Isabel, from Elizabeth

“my God is an oath”

Isabella Beeton, better known as Mrs Beeton, wrote the best-known Victorian guide to cookery and household management.

Meaning borrowed from Isabella. More on Wiktionary.

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

Issabella is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 43 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Issabella in the UK?

Rank in 2025
3,409th among girls
Babies in 2025
7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 17% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Issabella, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 24 girls.

2025 had more girls named Issabella than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Issabella in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,976 girls in the UK were given Issabella or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #10, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.

2000Busiest: 24 in 20102025
Issabella in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#3,409
20240–
20233#5,929
20226#3,728
20214#4,864
20208#3,009
20190–
20184#4,914
20179#2,864
20166#3,788
20155#4,294
201411#2,462
20139#2,796
201215#2,005
201115#1,917
201024#1,380
20099#2,695
200814#1,943
200710#2,354
200610#2,263
20056#3,133
20047#2,669
20034#3,768
20023#4,284
20013#4,156
20004#3,399

How popular is Issabella in the US?

Rank in 2025
3,516th among girls
Babies in 2025
43 about 1 in 37,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 47% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 43 girls in the US were named Issabella, making it the 3,516th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,890th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 137 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Issabella in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 11,737 girls in the US were given Issabella or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #6, up from #3,516 for this spelling alone.

1994Busiest: 137 in 20102025
Issabella in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202543#3,516
202430#4,558
202342#3,638
202257#2,928
202153#3,069
202056#2,890
201982#2,231
201878#2,334
201781#2,283
201664#2,697
201569#2,590
201473#2,469
201397#2,002
201287#2,160
2011131#1,639
2010137#1,590
2009121#1,785
200894#2,137
200773#2,541
200657#2,977
200542#3,505
200443#3,440
200333#4,030
200242#3,279
200133#3,860
200016#6,481
199929#3,966
199818#5,579
19978#9,797
19969#8,807
19957#10,509
19945#13,423

Nicknames for Issabella

Names like Issabella

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

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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, “Issabella: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/issabella, updated 20 October 2026.