Isabela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Isabella; from Hebrew Elisheva, 'God is my oath'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/izɐbɛlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Isabela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 590(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Kas Isabella
- DKDenmark1 in 557as Isabella
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Isabela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 590 (inferred from the name graph)
358,542 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Isabella; from Hebrew Elisheva, 'God is my oath'
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isabela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #277 | 358,542 | 1 in 590 | 359K | Isabela | 197 |
| US United States | — | 309,067as Isabella | 1 in 1.1K | 309K | Isabela | 239 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16,883as Isabella | 1 in 604 | 17K | Isabela | 15 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 14,626as Isabella | 1 in 1.2K | 15K | Isabela | 29 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10,537as Isabella | 1 in 557 | 11K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 7,464as Isabella | 1 in 746 | 8.1K | — | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 470as Ísabella | 1 in 746 | 470 | — | — |
358,542 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Isabela is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, Isabela (a province of Cagayan Valley, Luzon, Philippines; capital and largest city: Ilagan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Variante de Isabel; probablemente del hebreo 'Dios es juramento'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Latvian, pilsēta Filipīnu dienvidos, Basilanas salā, administratīvi iekļauta Zamoangas Pussalas reģionā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Isabela Coronab. 1913MXMexican actress (1913–1993)
- Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulinab. 1937RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator (1937–2010)
- Chavela Romerob. 1946MXnot in their usual nameMexican professional wrestler (1946-1985)
- Isabela Garciab. 1967BRBrazilian actress
- Izab. 1990BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer-songwriter and dancer
- Isabela Ramonab. 1994BRBrazilian basketball player (born 1994)
- Isabela Valadeirob. 1996PTPortuguese actress
- Isabela Souzab. 1998BRBrazilian actress and singer
- Isabela Onyshkob. 1998CACanadian artistic gymnast
- Isabela Mercedb. 2001USAmerican actress and singer (born 2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 359K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 357K | #77 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 217K | #239 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 46K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,063 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.7K | #521 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #77 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 426 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 198 | #5,278 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 111 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 67 | #4,026 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 61 | #2,250 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Isabela mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Isabella; from Hebrew Elisheva, 'God is my oath' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Isabela a male or female name?
- Isabela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Isabela?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; Isa and Belinha are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Isabela?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 358,542 people named Isabela in 2022, about 1 in 590 residents.
- How common is Isabela compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Isabela is the 277th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Isabela?
- A machine transcription gives /izɐbɛlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Isabela have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 359 thousand people named Isabela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isabela.
- Where is Isabela most common?
- Isabela is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 590 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Isabela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isabelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Isabela” — the 277th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.