Ysabella
Feminine · “my God is an oath”
Ysabella is Isabella with the medieval Y, and Isabella is what southern Europe made of Elizabeth — a Hebrew name that came apart in Spanish mouths and was put back together as something new.
How old is the name Ysabella?
Ysabella first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Ysabella alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 2,000 people named Ysabella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ysabella most popular?
Ysabella peaked in 2002, reaching #1791 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 1,598 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisheva to Ysabella
The story of Ysabella
Medieval Spanish and Occitan dropped the opening syllable of Elisabel and produced Isabel, which became one of the great royal names of Iberia and England. Italian added the diminutive ending to make Isabella. The Y spelling is genuinely medieval — scribes used y and i interchangeably — and Ysabel appears throughout Spanish documents of the period. Its modern American use revives that older look rather than inventing a new one.
Meaningscholars disagree
my God is an oath
Elizabeth is from Hebrew Elisheva, generally read as my God is an oath or my God is abundance. Isabel is the medieval Iberian development, and by the thirteenth century the two were treated as separate names in the same families. The derivation itself is not seriously disputed.
How the name formed
- Elisheva
- Isabel
- Isabella
- Ysabella
Related forms: Isabella · Isabel · Isabelle · Isabela
Pronouncing Ysabella
iz-uh-BEL-ah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Identical in sound to Isabella.
Nicknames for Ysabella
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
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 2007110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1791reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%45 in 2025, from 40
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.
Ysabella in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Isabella in Italian — spelling variant
- Isabel in Spanish — related form
- Isabelle in French — same name
- Isabela in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Ysabellas among us
people named Ysabella are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Ysabella
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Wynne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ysabella's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Wynne climbed just as high around 1943, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Wynne's path sketches the road Ysabella is walking now.
Ysabella 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 Ysabella is headed
Ysabella is easing off slowly — about 20% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Ysabella beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ysabella in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented line reaching back to a Hebrew name of the first century and earlier.
- Four complete short forms, in three languages.
- The Y spelling is genuinely medieval rather than a modern invention.
- Isabella is enormously more common and will be written for her on nearly every form.
- Nine letters and four syllables is a great deal for early handwriting.
- The sound is among the most-used of its generation, so a classroom may hold more than one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ysabellas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Ysabella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ysabella in 2025?
- Ysabella ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ysabella?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Ysabella — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ysabella with classmates?
- Ysabella will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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