The given name Isabela is a variant of Isabel, which means ‘God is fullness, perfection’. It is a Spanish and Portuguese form of Elizabeth.
Isabela is a first name for girls.
The name Isabela 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, Isabela ranks 668. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Isabela. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Isabela.
Isabela is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Isabela cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #415 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2004. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Isabela, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Isabela seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Isabela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
509 babies were named Isabela in 2022 - that's 1 in 291,222 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Isabela ranked 531 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 seven letters, the name Isabela has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Isabela 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 Isabela, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Isabela
Isabela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
S
A
B
E
L
A
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
A
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. Isabela sounds like this:
