Isabela

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Isabela: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Isabela: Recorded since 1997, it reached #418 in 2022, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#418highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
1999	#3900
2000	#3912
2001	#1870
2002	#3409
2003	#3594
2004	#1617
2005	#1243
2006	#1660
2007	#1443
2008	#1135
2009	#1411
2010	#1257
2011	#1225
2012	#1130
2013	#1291
2014	#1367
2015	#1088
2016	#1142
2017	#1144
2018	#1436
2019	#1316
2020	#916
2021	#1286
2022	#1282
2023	#888
2024	#1036

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1036 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2738 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Isabela appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 568 births with the name.

Isabela across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Isabela's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#888 (2023)	#1036 (2024)	27 of 28	568 (1997–2024)	40 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#441 (2024)	#483 (2025)	12 of 18	61 (2008–2025)	8 (2024)

Isabela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Isabela in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	130	10 of 10	13
2010s	268	10 of 10	27
2020sbusiest	162	5 of 10	32

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 32 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Isabela appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2022.

Isabela's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1036	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#888	40	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1286	25	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#916	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1316	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1142	30	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1130	30	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1257	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1135	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #418, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 40 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Isabeau · #2945, 12y
Isabel · #45, 68y
Isabell · #82, 55y
Isabella · #1, 59y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Zaria · #418, 24y
Alissa · #419, 29y
Dolcie · #419, 26y
Leonidas · #419, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Annie-Rose · #418, 24y
Calla · #418, 27y
Fox · #418, 27y
Hadley · #418, 29y

Isabela was ranked #418 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Isabela and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Isabela without appearing here.

Isabela moved ahead of

Cian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3594 and #3594 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1243 and #3970.
Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3594 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1660 and #4157.
Jan Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3594 and #3594 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1243 and #3382.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3912 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1870 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Isabela

Beau Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2738 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1805.
Mila Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2738 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2189.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1088 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1142 and #768.
Harper Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1135 and #1391 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1411 and #1171.

Moved the opposite way to Isabela

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Isabela

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isabela went from #2738 to #1036 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Isabela

Isabela at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Isabela across 2 official records

Isabela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Isabela appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Isabela

Isabela and the names beside it

Isabela moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Isabela

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Moved the same way as Isabela

Isabela at a glance

Isabela across 2 official records

Isabela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Isabela appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Isabela

Isabela and the names beside it

Isabela moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Isabela

Moved the opposite way to Isabela

Moved the same way as Isabela