Isabel
The 2025 national count puts Isabel at #177, neither climbing nor fading. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 132,150 American bearers across the record.
What Isabel carries
Isabel · Hebrew
“oath of Baal”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Isabel’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Isabel, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Isabel since 1880
Isabel peaked in 2006 at #87; #177 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Isabel is most common
The state that gives Isabel most often, per girls born there, is District of Columbia (0.45% in 2025); Alaska and Rhode Island are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Isabel
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Isabelle
#166 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ivan
#163 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zachary
#216 in 2025 · Hebrew
Elise
#223 in 2025 · Hebrew
Nathaniel
#140 in 2025 · Hebrew
Malachi
#134 in 2025 · Hebrew
Giovanni
#123 in 2025 · Hebrew
Eliza
#115 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Isabel
How common is Isabel today?
The 2025 national count puts Isabel at #177, neither climbing nor fading. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Isabel mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “oath of Baal”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Isabel?
The recipe puts Isabelle first, then Zachary, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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