Isobel

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Isobel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 78 births. Its best rank was 817th, in 1916.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 780.00% of girls
Peak year: 2016129 births
Best rank: #817in 1916
Since 1894: 3,722people given the name

Babies named Isobel, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

3,722 girls have been named Isobel in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 129 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2010s alone account for 26%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Isobel
1890s	42
1900s	129
1910s	366
1920s	422
1930s	190
1940s	81
1950s	51
1960s	12
1970s	13
1980s	7
1990s	270
2000s	715
2010s	981
2020s	443

In 2016, its biggest year

Isobel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Isobel

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.