Given name
Isabela
“my God is bountiful”
In Portuguese use, Isabela is a variant of Isabel. In Spanish use, Isabel carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Original SpanishIsabel
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Portuguese use, Isabela is a variant of Isabel. In Spanish use, Isabel carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Isabela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12,698
- 0 boys · 12,698 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 695 babies
- 2025
- 426
- #664 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +27%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 426 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 664 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 27.2% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 695 in 2004. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (62). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,178 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Isabela’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Isabela has a diminutive in Isa. In English usage, Isabela shares an earlier linguistic root with Isabelle. In Portuguese usage, Isabela has a related form in Isabel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Isabela has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Isabela comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Isabellaequivalent
- Isabelledoublet · English
- Izabellaequivalent
- Belaequivalent
- Isabeloequivalent
- Sabelaequivalent
- Ísabellaequivalent
- Изабелаequivalent
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See also 5
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Isabela
- Bella AkhmadulinaSoviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator (1937–2010)
- Isabela MercedAmerican actress and singer (born 2001)
- Isabela GarciaBrazilian actressborn 1967
- IzaBrazilian singer-songwriter and dancerborn 1990
- Isabela SouzaBrazilian actress and singerborn 1998
- Isabela FigueiredoPortuguese writerborn 1963
- Isabela CoronaMexican actress (1913–1993)
- Isabela RamonaBrazilian basketball player (born 1994)
- Isabela OnyshkoCanadian artistic gymnastborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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