Izola
Feminine · “Island”
The s in island was put there by scholars and was never pronounced. The English word is native, spelled igland and then iland for centuries, until people who knew Latin decided it must be related to isle and inserted a letter to prove a descent that does not exist.
How old is the name Izola?
Izola first appears in US birth records in 1896 — 129 years ago. The typical Izola alive today was born around 1923, making them about 102 years old. About 200 people named Izola are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Izola most popular?
Izola peaked in 1908, reaching #791 nationally. See the whole 1908 chart.
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Where it comes from
From isola to Izola
The story of Izola
Izola on the Adriatic was an island until the channel was filled in. It sat a short distance off the Istrian coast, was fortified as an island for centuries, and was joined to the mainland in the nineteenth century when the strait between was filled with the rubble of its own demolished walls. The town kept the name, which is now a description of what it used to be. Places that outlive their own geography like this are commoner than one might think, and their names are usually the last evidence that anything changed.
Meaningscholars disagree
Island
The Italian isola, an island, spelled with a z as English often does for a voiced s. Whether the American name was taken from that word, from the place, or from Isolde by way of the ear is not recorded, so the reading is the likeliest of several rather than the established one.
How the name formed
- isola
- Izola
Related forms: Isola
Pronouncing Izola
eye-ZOH-luh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Italian says it with a short first vowel and the weight at the front, so the English reading rebuilds the word considerably.
Nicknames for Izola
Moderate
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
- 1896
- Most girls named
- 192359 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #791reached in 1908
- Change vs 1977
- 0.0%5 in 2017, from 5
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.
Izola in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Isola in Italian — same name
Izolas among us
people named Izola are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Izola sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Zola and Izzy are two short forms that sound nothing alike.
- The word behind it is concrete and easy to explain to a child.
- It is genuinely rare while containing no unfamiliar sound.
- Isola with an s is the Italian spelling and will be written instead.
- The English stress is not the Italian one, so the name has to be introduced.
- It belongs to an early layer of the American record and reads that way.
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- How many Izolas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Izola are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Izola in 2025?
- Izola is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Izola with classmates?
- Izola will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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