The given name Isabel means ‘God is fullness, perfection’. It is a Spanish and Portuguese form of Elizabeth.
Isabel is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Isabel isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Isabel ranks 137. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 13 were named Isabel. In the entire USA, approximately 117,449 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Isabel. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The given name Isabel means ‘God is fullness, perfection’. It is a Spanish and Portuguese form of Elizabeth.
Isabel is a... theophoric name. This means that it includes a reference to a deity or a divine being.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few girls' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 432 girls' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Isabel is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Isabel has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2003, the name even made it to rank #81 of the most popular girls' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Isabel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 1,848 girls were born and given the name Isabel by their parents. That puts Isabel at #149 on our list of most popular girls' names. It was much less popular in 1965 - only 343 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter and it ranked 497 on the popularity scale of all girls' names.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Isabel is one of them. However, Isabel is not equally widespread in all states, but people in New Mexico seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,172 women called Isabel who live here are 0,275% of all female residents and push their name up to #87, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in New Mexico.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Isabel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.7% of all girls’ names begin with an I, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names that begin with an I, which are quite popular
If your name is Isabel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Isabel, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Isabel
Isabel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
S
A
B
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
S
A
B
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Isabel sounds like this:
