girls:
104.1k births since 1880
#357 (94th percentile)
boys:
20 births since 2004
#4566 (0th percentile)
overall:
104.1k births since 1880
#660 (91st percentile)
The name Isabelle is the #660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 104,134 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #357 (93.8% percentile) for all time with 104,114 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,566 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 2004.
Isabelle has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 2004 for boys).
The name Isabelle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Isabelle reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 92.1% percentile (ranked #79) with 1,940 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 1,940 births per million (ranked 92.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Isabelle ranks #155 for girls (83.7% percentile) with 1,020 births per million, which is 52.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Isabelle reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isabelle".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Isabel. View all variations of Isabel.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Isabelle", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 27 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Isabel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Isabel..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Isabelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.3% confident that Isabelle is pronounced as IH-zuh-BEHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-zuh-behl, at 36.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
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 EH1 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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