How rare is the name Isabelle?

74,125 people in the United States have the first name Isabelle, about 1 in 4,075. It ranks #696 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ISABELLE

#696

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
74,125
About
1 in 4,075
This common or more
64.4%
Who bears it

Of the 74,125 people named Isabelle, 64.9% reported their origin as White, 19.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Isabelle peaked in 2007, when 4,106 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2007
Births that year
4,106
In 2025*
1,825 ▼56%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 107,782 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Isabelle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #229. The largest share of babies named Isabelle, 42.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#2991,092
1890s#2941,890
1900s#2862,514
1910s#3337,255
1920s#4566,964
1930s#7162,761
1940s#1,1281,470
1950s#1,6571,028
1960s#2,009817
1970s#3,112465
1980s#2,766692
1990s#7237,276
2000s#22932,891
2010s#25128,507
2020s#33412,160
Before 19013%
Greatest Generation 1901–2714.4%
Silent Generation 1928–454.4%
Baby boom 1946–641.9%
Generation X 1965–800.8%
Millennials 1981–963%
Generation Z 1997–1242.4%
2013 and later30.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Isabelle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Isabelle has been most common in New Hampshire (2.3×), Vermont (2.2×), and Nevada (2×), and least common in Mississippi (0.29×).

98,476 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Isabelle

#694 Gwendolyn · 74,571#695 Liliana · 74,435#697 Ron · 74,027#698 Gustavo · 73,690

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Isabelle, most common first.

#164 Isabella · 309,067#435 Isabel · 129,711#2,063 Isabela · 13,178#2,798 Isabell · 8,283#7,879 Issabella · 1,882#14,661 Isbella · 800#19,654 Isabele · 535#25,229 Issabelle · 377

Also a last name

As a last name, Isabelle ranks #25,489 of 156,621, with 1,016 people. See Isabelle as a last name

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