Isabella
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Isabella is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew Elisheva via Latin/Italian, 'God is my oath'.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 185as Isabel
- ESSpain1 in 211as Isabel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Isabella 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)
- #136 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- 1 in 557 (inferred from the name graph)
358,542 named Isabela, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Isabel in ES Spain, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 more, Isabelle in FR France, BE Belgium and Izabela in PL Poland.
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)
From Hebrew Elisheva via Latin/Italian, '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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isabella 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 | #95 | 358,542as Isabela | 1 in 590 | 359K | Isabel | 206 |
| US United States | #707 | 309,067 | 1 in 1.1K | 309K | Isabel | 476 |
| FR France | #17 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | 378K | Isabelle | 433 |
| ES Spain | #16 | 237,075as Isabel | 1 in 211 | 250K | Isabel | 257 |
| PL Poland | #83 | 159,119as Izabela | 1 in 241 | 159K | Izabela | 186 |
| PT Portugal | #25 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 185 | listed | Isabel | 191 |
| BE Belgium | #24 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 388 | 58 | Isabelle | 160 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10,537 | 1 in 557 | 11K | — | 3 |
358,542 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling isabela. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Isabella is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Variant of Isabel; very popular in Ireland in the early 20th century.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, Spanish form of Elizabeth; consecrated to God.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Latinate form of jIsabel, which became popular in England in the 18th century. Transferred use of the surname, which is derived from the medieval given name Erwin, from Old English eofor ‘boar’ + wine ‘friend’. There has also been some confusion with pIrving.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Italian form of Spanish Isabel (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from the female personal name Isabella (see Isbell).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Isabella of Austriab. 1501BEQueen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; (1501-1526)
- Mary of Modenab. 1658ITnot in their usual nameQueen consort of England (1685-1688)
- Sojourner Truthb. 1797USnot in their usual nameabolitionist and African-American activist for women's rights (1797–1883)
- Isabella Beetonb. 1836GBBritish journalist, editor, publisher, and writer
- Isabel de Borbón y Borbónb. 1851ESSpanish princess; eldest daughter of Queen Isabella II and Francis, Duke of Cádiz
- Isabella Rossellinib. 1952ITItalian-American actress (born 1952)
- Isabella Ferrarib. 1964ITItalian actress
- Zoë Kravitzb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, director, singer and model (born 1988)
- Bella Hadidb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican model
- Bella Ramseyb. 2003GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 146 sources across 70 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 309K | #164 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 126K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 125K | #258 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 36K | #964 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 20K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11K | #66 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.3K | #572 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.9K | #405 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #380 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.8K | #380 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #689 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Isabella mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew Elisheva via Latin/Italian, '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 Isabella a male or female name?
- Isabella 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 Isabella?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; Isa is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Isabella 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 is Isabella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Isabella is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 557 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Isabella?
- In the United States, the national register counted 309,067 people named Isabella in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Isabella compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Isabella is the 95th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isabellaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Isabella” — the 95th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.