Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: ItalianIsabella or Isabela is a feminine given name, the Latinate and Italian form of Isabel, the Spanish form, Isabelle, the French form, and Isobel, the Scottish form of the name Elizabeth. All are ultimately derived from the Hebrew Elisheba.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Isabella yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Isabella's fall from #1 is the steepest of any former chart-topper in this batch: it held the top national rank as recently as 2009, peaked at 22,935 births in 2010, and now sits at #7 with 10,770 in 2024 — a 37% decline over the past decade, on par with Sophia's drop and part of the same broader retreat of early-2010s chart-topping names.
It's been recorded since 1880 and, like Sophia, carries real historical range: the enrichment data's oldest reference is Sojourner Truth's birth name, Isabella Baumfree, a very different association from the name's more recent pop-culture ties through nickname variants like Bella.
That nickname flexibility — Bella Hadid and Bella Ramsey both appear in its famous-bearer list under the shortened form — may be cushioning the decline somewhat, since Isabella functions as both a formal choice and, via Bella, a softer one, giving it two separate routes back into favor even as the full name's raw numbers fall.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 50 | #215 |
| 1881 | 50 | #218 |
| 1882 | 44 | #263 |
| 1883 | 54 | #245 |
| 1884 | 76 | #216 |
| 1885 | 48 | #291 |
| 1886 | 80 | #229 |
| 1887 | 58 | #280 |
| 1888 | 63 | #299 |
| 1889 | 80 | #263 |
| 1890 | 91 | #263 |
| 1891 | 79 | #279 |
| 1892 | 88 | #285 |
| 1893 | 109 | #252 |
| 1894 | 92 | #288 |
| 1895 | 90 | #306 |
| 1896 | 88 | #311 |
| 1897 | 86 | #314 |
| 1898 | 86 | #336 |
| 1899 | 94 | #306 |
| 1900 | 128 | #290 |
| 1901 | 92 | #315 |
| 1902 | 84 | #346 |
| 1903 | 96 | #317 |
| 1904 | 88 | #348 |
| 1905 | 105 | #329 |
| 1906 | 110 | #320 |
| 1907 | 126 | #310 |
| 1908 | 112 | #336 |
| 1909 | 97 | #375 |
| 1910 | 151 | #312 |
| 1911 | 129 | #353 |
| 1912 | 161 | #362 |
| 1913 | 165 | #375 |
| 1914 | 187 | #389 |
| 1915 | 242 | #387 |
| 1916 | 246 | #401 |
| 1917 | 237 | #410 |
| 1918 | 254 | #411 |
| 1919 | 274 | #392 |
| 1920 | 252 | #420 |
| 1921 | 236 | #449 |
| 1922 | 241 | #429 |
| 1923 | 228 | #454 |
| 1924 | 231 | #458 |
| 1925 | 205 | #489 |
| 1926 | 187 | #511 |
| 1927 | 182 | #523 |
| 1928 | 178 | #519 |
| 1929 | 155 | #549 |
| 1930 | 142 | #572 |
| 1931 | 139 | #556 |
| 1932 | 128 | #581 |
| 1933 | 116 | #603 |
| 1934 | 90 | #704 |
| 1935 | 93 | #695 |
| 1936 | 80 | #751 |
| 1937 | 105 | #664 |
| 1938 | 100 | #689 |
| 1939 | 86 | #737 |
| 1940 | 76 | #818 |
| 1941 | 96 | #722 |
| 1942 | 72 | #922 |
| 1943 | 90 | #818 |
| 1944 | 75 | #884 |
| 1945 | 64 | #969 |
| 1946 | 74 | #971 |
| 1947 | 82 | #977 |
| 1948 | 77 | #996 |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,094 |
| 1950 | 55 | #1,243 |
| 1951 | 65 | #1,164 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,200 |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,221 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,383 |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,297 |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,303 |
| 1957 | 65 | #1,319 |
| 1958 | 53 | #1,474 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,573 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,511 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,570 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,658 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,604 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,713 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,837 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,679 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,767 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,659 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,368 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,095 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,014 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,330 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,372 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,637 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,533 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,129 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,211 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,964 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,581 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,619 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,460 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,662 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,805 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,641 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,722 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,870 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,636 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,608 |
| 1989 | 139 | #1,178 |
| 1990 | 217 | #890 |
| 1991 | 305 | #699 |
| 1992 | 508 | #488 |
| 1993 | 830 | #319 |
| 1994 | 1,277 | #222 |
| 1995 | 1,739 | #174 |
| 1996 | 2,112 | #151 |
| 1997 | 2,862 | #114 |
| 1998 | 3,851 | #84 |
| 1999 | 5,060 | #60 |
| 2000 | 6,242 | #45 |
| 2001 | 8,835 | #28 |
| 2002 | 12,171 | #14 |
| 2003 | 13,781 | #12 |
| 2004 | 15,021 | #7 |
| 2005 | 15,198 | #6 |
| 2006 | 18,231 | #4 |
| 2007 | 19,143 | #2 |
| 2008 | 18,628 | #2 |
| 2009 | 22,319 | #1 |
| 2010 | 22,935 | #1 |
| 2011 | 19,930 | #2 |
| 2012 | 19,134 | #3 |
| 2013 | 17,679 | #4 |
| 2014 | 17,133 | #4 |
| 2015 | 15,661 | #5 |
| 2016 | 14,861 | #5 |
| 2017 | 15,254 | #4 |
| 2018 | 14,568 | #4 |
| 2019 | 13,404 | #5 |
| 2020 | 12,217 | #7 |
| 2021 | 11,297 | #7 |
| 2022 | 11,747 | #6 |
| 2023 | 10,853 | #7 |
| 2024 | 10,770 | #7 |
