Izabella
Feminine · “God is my oath”
Izabella is the Polish and Hungarian way of writing Isabella, a name that has been carried by queens since the Middle Ages and reshaped by nearly every language it entered. The z does nothing to the sound — four soft syllables that land on BEL — but it points the spelling home to Central Europe. It is a very old name wearing a spelling most English speakers meet only once or twice.
How old is the name Izabella?
Izabella first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Izabella alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 31,000 people named Izabella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Izabella most popular?
Izabella peaked in 2010, reaching #138 nationally. Today it ranks #564, 426 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
Where it comes from
From Elisheva to Izabella
The story of Izabella
Elizabeth traveled from Hebrew into Greek and Latin, and in medieval southern France and Spain the opening syllable wore away, leaving Isabel. Latinized back into Isabella, it became one of the great royal names of Europe — worn by Isabella I of Castile in the fifteenth century and by queens and consorts across France, Portugal and England. Polish and Hungarian, which use z where English and Romance languages use s for that sound, spell it Izabella, and it is that form which came into American use, carried by families with Central and Eastern European roots. It has done its steadiest American work in the large, diverse states of the south and west.
Meaning
God is my oath
Izabella descends from Isabella, which grew out of Elizabeth — Hebrew Elisheva, understood as "my God is an oath." The resemblance to Italian bella, "beautiful," is a coincidence of sound rather than the source, though it has kept the name company for centuries.
How the name formed
- Elisheva
- Elisabet
- Isabel
- Isabella
- Izabella
Related forms: Izabella · Izabela · Isabella · Isabel · Isabelle · Изабелла
Pronouncing Izabella
iz-uh-BEL-uh
Identical to Isabella — the z is pronounced the same as the s in the common spelling. In Hungarian the stress falls on the first syllable instead: IZ-o-bel-lo.
Nicknames for Izabella
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1987
- Most girls named
- 20102,254 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #138reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −12.5%532 in 2025, from 608
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Izabella in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Izabella in Hungarian — same name
- Izabela in Polish — spelling variant
- Isabella in Italian — spelling variant
- Isabel in Spanish — related form
- Isabelle in French — related form
- Изабелла in Russian — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Izabellas among us
people named Izabella are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 3,021 born in 2025 was named Izabella
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Izabella
- #564
- Izabella on the 2025 chart
- #8
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Izabella went to 532 girls in 2025, but Isabella and Isabela are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 11,661, which makes it the 8th most-given girls’ name of the year — 556 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 138 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 3,021 for Izabella itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Erma test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Izabella's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Erma climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Erma's path sketches the road Izabella is walking now.
Izabella sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Izabella is headed
Izabella is easing off slowly — about 19% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Izabella beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Izabella in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The sound needs no explanation anywhere in the English-speaking world; only the spelling does.
- Two ready-made short forms, Bella and Izzy, both already in independent use.
- Belongs to a name family — Elizabeth, Isabel, Isabelle, Izabela — that spans most European languages.
- A documented line running back through medieval Spain and France to the Hebrew Elisheva.
- Common enough to be understood, uncommon enough that a classroom is unlikely to hold two.
- Isabella is the default spelling in English, so Izabella will be corrected and re-corrected on forms, rosters and coffee cups for life. Most bearers settle into spelling it aloud without much thought, but it never quite stops.
- The name is stepping back from a recent high point, which means most people carrying it now are children and teenagers rather than adults — a young-sounding name for the next couple of decades.
- Bella and Ella, the obvious short forms, are both widely used names on their own, so she may share a nickname with girls whose full names are nothing like hers.
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Frequently asked
- How many Izabellas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 31,000 people named Izabella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Izabella?
- Izabella is one of 3 recorded spellings. Isabella is the more common one — 10,666 births in 2025 against 532 for Izabella.
- How popular is the name Izabella in 2025?
- Izabella ranks #564 among US girl names in 2025, with 532 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Izabella?
- About 1 in every 3,021 US girls born in 2025 was named Izabella — 532 in all.
- Will my child share the name Izabella with classmates?
- Izabella will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Izabella
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Della#563 · Nadia#565 · Ivanna#566 · Amalia#566 · Makayla#566 · Armani#562 · Lilian#560 · Mavis#560
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