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Isabelle

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Isabelle is ranked 170th among girls in 2024 (1,778 births). Its best rank was 79th, in 2007.

Rank in 2024
#170down 11 from 2023
Births in 2024
1,7780.11% of girls
Peak year
20074,105 births
Best rank
#79in 2007
Since 1880
105,918people given the name
Babies named Isabelle, by year of birthgirls
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

105,918 girls have been named Isabelle in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 4,105 births — 0.21% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 96 → 170).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Isabelle
1880s1,092
1890s1,890
1900s2,514
1910s7,255
1920s6,964
1930s2,761
1940s1,470
1950s1,028
1960s818
1970s465
1980s693
1990s7,276
2000s32,868
2010s28,503
2020s10,321

In 2007, its biggest year

Isabelle was the 79th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.

Names that rose and fell with Isabelle

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.