Isabelle

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in French: French form derived from Elisabeth; from Hebrew meaning “God is plenitude”

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/izabɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Isabelle 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.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 223(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 388
  • SESweden1 in 591

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 Isabelle 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)

358,542 named Isabela, 2022

#136 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
476 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 223 (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IsabelLatin(measured from records)
ИзабеллаCyrillic(measured from records)
איזבלHebrew(measured from records)
ԻզաբելաArmenian(measured from records)
იზაბელაGeorgian(measured from records)
อิซาเบลThai(measured from records)
ΙσαβέλλαGreek(measured from records)
사벨Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Isabel in ES Spain, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 more 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)

French form derived from Elisabeth; from Hebrew meaning “God is plenitude.”

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Isabelle is read(measured from records)

Isabelle is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French75%

    French form derived from Elisabeth; from Hebrew meaning “God is plenitude.”

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    French form of Elizabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva, 'God is my oath'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    From Hebrew; biblical female given name. Cited as a recent, newly coined/non-inflecting source for surnames.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • English14%

    French form of Isabella; from Hebrew Elisheva, 'God is my oath'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

    A female given name from French Isabelle, ultimately a variant of Elizabeth.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Isabelle 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.

Where Isabelle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#95358,542as Isabela1 in 590359KIsabel206
US United States#707309,067as Isabella1 in 1.1K309KIsabel476
FR France#17≈300,000 est.≈1 in 223378KIsabelle433
ES Spain#16237,075as Isabel1 in 211250KIsabel257
PL Poland#83159,119as Izabela1 in 241159KIzabela186
PT Portugal#25≈56,000 est.≈1 in 185listedIsabel191
BE Belgium#24≈30,000 est.≈1 in 38858Isabelle160
SE Sweden#30317,2751 in 59117KIsabelle82

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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Isabelle is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Isabellé, Isa-Belle, Isabellè, Isabęllę, Îsabelle

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Isabellé

  • Polish given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Canada, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Ізабелл, Изабелле, Ісабелле, Исабелле, Iśabelle

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Isabelle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • French form of jIsabel, occasionally used in the English-speaking world.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first 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)

100012001400160018002000Isabella of Angoulême, b. 1188Isabella of France, b. 1295Isabella of Valois, b. 1389Isabelle de Charrière, b. 1740Isabelle Aubret, b. 1938France Gall, b. 1947Isabelle Huppert, b. 1953Isabelle Adjani, b. 1955Isabelle Caro, b. 1982Emilia Clarke, b. 1986

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)

InformalBonjour Isabelle,Hi Isabelle, (English)

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 107 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Isabelle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024378K#690
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202074K#696
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202254K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—54K#535
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—21K#1,353
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—17K#250
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202010K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20204.4K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.8K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—542#4,320
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—526#642
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026526#642

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 are other forms of the name Isabelle?
In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Isabelle mean, and where does it come from?
French form derived from Elisabeth; from Hebrew meaning “God is plenitude.” Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Isabelle a male or female name?
Isabelle 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.
In which country does Isabelle have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 359 thousand people named Isabela, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Isabelle?
In Sweden, the national register counted 17,275 people named Isabelle, about 1 in 591 residents.
How common is Isabelle compared with other names?
In Brazil, Isabelle is the 95th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Isabelle?
A machine transcription gives /izabɛl/ (IPA) for French.

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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, “Isabelle” — the 95th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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