Isela
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
- Mexico (RENAPO): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/iˈse.la/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Isela is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 7.9K
- PEPeru≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Isela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #207 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 314 | Isela | 171 |
| US United States | — | 7,956 | 1 in 42K | 7.9K | Isela | 271 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Isela | 45 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Isela | 37 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Isela | 28 |
| SV El Salvador | #444 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 1 | Isela | 22 |
| NI Nicaragua | #443 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Isela | 13 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; This page details the top 100 names by frequency in El Salvador, published by Students of the World.. 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)Isela 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.
In nd, thief
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Isela Vegab. 1939MXMexican actress (1939-2021)
- Isela Sotelob. 1956USAmerican singer
- Isela Costantinib. 1971ARArgentinian business magnate
- Isela Xospab. 1975MXMexican writer
- Karolína Kurkováb. 1984CZnot in their usual nameCzech model
- Isela BlancUSAmerican politician
- Isela HowlettUSresearcher
- María Isela Zevallos HerenciaPEPeruvian physicist
- Rosa Isela MenesesBOBolivian botanist
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #2,882 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 314 | #313 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 196 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 189 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 150 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 146 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 144 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 132 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 128 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 126 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 124 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 121 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Isela?
- In Spanish /iˈse.la/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Isela a male or female name?
- Isela is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; Mexico (RENAPO): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Isela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Isela in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isela.
- How common is the name Isela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,956 people named Isela in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Isela compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Isela is the 207th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Isela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iselaThe 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, “Isela” — the 207th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.