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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 0.000259487 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 0.000210369 63 100%
1889 80 0.000276868 80 100%
1890 91 0.000301923 91 100%
1891 79 0.000275576 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 0.000225453 86 100%
1899 94 0.000277095 94 100%
1900 128 0.000284281 128 100%
1901 92 0.000266041 92 100%
1902 84 0.000217204 84 100%
1903 96 0.000251835 96 100%
1904 88 0.0002181 88 100%
1905 105 0.000247686 105 100%
1906 110 0.000256739 110 100%
1907 126 0.00027074 126 100%
1908 112 0.000229203 112 100%
1909 97 0.000189741 97 100%
1910 151 0.000255624 151 100%
1911 129 0.000200224 129 100%
1912 161 0.000162945 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 0.000129843 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 0.000078729 178 100%
1929 155 0.000070707 155 100%
1930 142 0.000063869 142 100%
1931 139 0.000066053 139 100%
1932 128 0.000060627 128 100%
1933 116 0.000058016 116 100%
1934 90 0.000043336 90 100%
1935 93 0.0000445 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 0.000031886 90 100%
1944 75 0.00002788 75 100%
1945 64 0.000024125 64 100%
1946 74 0.000023159 74 100%
1947 82 0.000022763 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 0.000015523 64 100%
1957 65 0.000015469 65 100%
1958 53 0.00001282 53 100%
1959 48 0.000011548 48 100%
1960 54 0.000013 54 100%
1961 52 0.000012554 52 100%
1962 47 0.000011649 47 100%
1963 50 0.000012632 50 100%
1964 46 0.000011833 46 100%
1965 39 0.000010757 39 100%
1966 45 0.000012948 45 100%
1967 43 0.000012666 43 100%
1968 22 0.000006512 22 100%
1969 30 0.000008632 30 100%
1970 39 0.000010814 39 100%
1971 42 0.000012237 42 100%
1972 32 0.000010181 32 100%
1973 32 0.000010607 32 100%
1974 28 0.000009211 28 100%
1975 31 0.000010267 31 100%
1976 23 0.00000758 23 100%
1977 24 0.000007556 24 100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 100%
1979 22 0.000006613 22 100%
1980 36 0.000010451 36 100%
1981 39 0.000011274 39 100%
1982 35 0.000009977 35 100%
1983 31 0.000008951 31 100%
1984 35 0.000010033 35 100%
1985 34 0.000009527 34 100%
1986 60 0.000016868 60 100%
1987 75 0.000020802 75 100%
1988 81 0.000021922 81 100%
1989 139 0.000036157 139 100%
1990 217 0.000054905 217 100%
1991 305 0.000078304 305 100%
1992 508 0.000132254 508 100%
1993 830 0.000220151 830 100%
1994 1277 0.000343512 1277 100%
1995 1739 0.000474875 1739 100%
1996 2111 0.000578825 2111 100%
1997 2868 0.000791034 2863 5 100%
1998 3851 0.001047011 3851 100%
1999 5066 0.001371507 5059 7 100%
2000 6250 0.001653531 6242 8 100%
2001 8841 0.002361841 8835 6 100%
2002 12181 0.003258578 12170 11 100%
2003 13799 0.00362939 13781 18 100%
2004 15069 0.003944111 15020 49 99%
2005 15212 0.003956773 15196 16 100%
2006 18247 0.004612727 18229 18 100%
2007 19162 0.004793787 19141 21 100%
2008 18653 0.004746192 18626 27 100%
2009 22345 0.005850251 22318 27 100%
2010 22964 0.00621464 22934 30 100%
2011 19954 0.005456157 19928 26 100%
2012 19148 0.005236491 19130 18 100%
2013 17691 0.004853762 17673 18 100%
2014 17149 0.00462809 17127 22 100%
2015 15679 0.00423774 15658 21 100%
2016 14864 0.004052873 14852 12 100%
2017 15255 0.004267471 15243 12 100%
2018 14573 0.004146949 14558 15 100%
2019 13404 0.003864171 13388 16 100%
2020 12210 0.003658049 12198 12 100%
2021 11297 0.003337679 11288 9 100%
2022 11744 0.003475985 11731 13 100%
2023 10816 0.003280313 10808 8 100%