Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Isabelo isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Isabelo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1970. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 315 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.
Isabelo’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Isabelo
- Isabelo de los ReyesFilipino politician and Founder of the Philippine Independent Church (1864–1938)
- Isabelo Caiban AbarquezFilipino Roman Catholic bishopborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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