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How popular is “Isabella” in the USA?

Number of people named “Isabella” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Isabella” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Isabella” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Isabella” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Isabella” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Isabella” by birth year

This chart shows how “Isabella” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 50 0.000248159 50 100%
1881 50 0.000259484 50 100%
1882 44 0.000198616 44 100%
1883 54 0.000248911 54 100%
1884 76 0.000312165 76 100%
1885 48 0.000199291 48 100%
1886 80 0.000313336 80 100%
1887 58 0.000234445 58 100%
1888 63 0.00021037 63 100%
1889 80 0.000276868 80 100%
1890 91 0.000301923 91 100%
1891 79 0.000275577 79 100%
1892 88 0.000263178 88 100%
1893 109 0.000335155 109 100%
1894 92 0.000271635 92 100%
1895 90 0.000256395 90 100%
1896 88 0.000246165 88 100%
1897 86 0.000247869 86 100%
1898 86 0.000225452 86 100%
1899 94 0.000277096 94 100%
1900 128 0.00028428 128 100%
1901 92 0.000266041 92 100%
1902 84 0.000217205 84 100%
1903 96 0.000251835 96 100%
1904 88 0.0002181 88 100%
1905 105 0.000247685 105 100%
1906 110 0.000256739 110 100%
1907 126 0.00027074 126 100%
1908 112 0.000229202 112 100%
1909 97 0.000189741 97 100%
1910 151 0.000255624 151 100%
1911 129 0.000200224 129 100%
1912 161 0.000162946 161 100%
1913 165 0.000145105 165 100%
1914 187 0.00013203 187 100%
1915 242 0.000132065 242 100%
1916 246 0.00012717 246 100%
1917 237 0.000118101 237 100%
1918 254 0.000116991 254 100%
1919 274 0.000129842 274 100%
1920 252 0.000111374 252 100%
1921 236 0.000101092 236 100%
1922 241 0.000105279 241 100%
1923 228 0.000099023 228 100%
1924 231 0.000096993 231 100%
1925 205 0.000087858 205 100%
1926 187 0.00008145 187 100%
1927 182 0.00007847 182 100%
1928 178 0.00007873 178 100%
1929 155 0.000070706 155 100%
1930 142 0.00006387 142 100%
1931 139 0.000066054 139 100%
1932 128 0.000060627 128 100%
1933 116 0.000058017 116 100%
1934 90 0.000043337 90 100%
1935 93 0.000044501 93 100%
1936 80 0.000038507 80 100%
1937 105 0.000049281 105 100%
1938 100 0.000045196 100 100%
1939 86 0.00003903 86 100%
1940 76 0.000033006 76 100%
1941 96 0.000039403 96 100%
1942 72 0.000026357 72 100%
1943 90 0.000031887 90 100%
1944 75 0.000027881 75 100%
1945 64 0.000024125 64 100%
1946 74 0.000023159 74 100%
1947 82 0.000022764 82 100%
1948 77 0.000022303 77 100%
1949 68 0.000019514 68 100%
1950 55 0.000015699 55 100%
1951 65 0.000017645 65 100%
1952 63 0.000016588 63 100%
1953 63 0.000016348 63 100%
1954 53 0.000013314 53 100%
1955 61 0.000015193 61 100%
1956 64 0.000015522 64 100%
1957 65 0.000015467 65 100%
1958 53 0.000012824 53 100%
1959 48 0.000011548 48 100%
1960 54 0.000012999 54 100%
1961 52 0.000012558 52 100%
1962 48 0.000011896 48 100%
1963 50 0.000012631 50 100%
1964 46 0.000011832 46 100%
1965 39 0.000010757 39 100%
1966 45 0.000012947 45 100%
1967 43 0.000012666 43 100%
1968 22 0.000006512 22 100%
1969 30 0.000008631 30 100%
1970 39 0.000010813 39 100%
1971 42 0.000012236 42 100%
1972 33 0.000010498 33 100%
1973 32 0.000010606 32 100%
1974 28 0.00000921 28 100%
1975 31 0.000010266 31 100%
1976 23 0.000007579 23 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 100%
1978 27 0.000008506 27 100%
1979 22 0.000006612 22 100%
1980 37 0.000010741 37 100%
1981 39 0.000011273 39 100%
1982 34 0.000009692 34 100%
1983 31 0.000008951 31 100%
1984 35 0.000010032 35 100%
1985 34 0.000009526 34 100%
1986 60 0.000016868 60 100%
1987 75 0.000020802 75 100%
1988 81 0.000021923 81 100%
1989 140 0.000036418 140 100%
1990 217 0.000054907 217 100%
1991 305 0.000078306 305 100%
1992 508 0.000132258 508 100%
1993 829 0.000219895 829 100%
1994 1277 0.000343524 1277 100%
1995 1738 0.000474619 1738 100%
1996 2109 0.000578297 2109 100%
1997 2867 0.000790781 2862 5 100%
1998 3850 0.00104677 3850 100%
1999 5066 0.001371555 5059 7 100%
2000 6250 0.001653606 6242 8 100%
2001 8840 0.002361683 8834 6 100%
2002 12181 0.003258874 12170 11 100%
2003 13799 0.003629635 13781 18 100%
2004 15069 0.003944394 15020 49 99%
2005 15209 0.003956384 15193 16 100%
2006 18246 0.004613031 18228 18 100%
2007 19161 0.004794267 19140 21 100%
2008 18652 0.004746747 18625 27 100%
2009 22342 0.005850494 22316 26 100%
2010 22959 0.006214494 22929 30 100%
2011 19953 0.005457143 19927 26 100%
2012 19144 0.005236735 19126 18 100%
2013 17681 0.004852549 17663 18 100%
2014 17147 0.004629087 17125 22 100%
2015 15667 0.00423617 15646 21 100%
2016 14858 0.004053073 14846 12 100%
2017 15243 0.004266452 15231 12 100%
2018 14563 0.004146935 14548 15 100%
2019 13391 0.003863731 13376 15 100%
2020 12193 0.003657189 12182 11 100%
2021 11271 0.003334899 11262 9 100%
2022 11675 0.003472743 11662 13 100%