girls:
128.5k births since 1880
#310 (95th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1904
#2922 (36th percentile)
overall:
130.4k births since 1880
#574 (93rd percentile)
The name Isabel is the #574 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 130,372 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #310 (94.6% percentile) for all time with 128,545 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,922 (36.3% percentile) for all time with 1,827 births since 1904.
Isabel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1904 for boys).
The name Isabel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Isabel reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 91.3% percentile (ranked #87) with 1,826 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 1,920 births per million (ranked 91.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Isabel ranks #159 for girls (83.3% percentile) with 996 births per million, which is 51.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Isabel reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #504) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 48 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isabel".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Isabel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Isabel.
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Isabel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.8% confident that Isabel is pronounced as IH-zuh-behl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-zuh-BEHL, at 34.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like IH1 Z AH0 B EH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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