Given name · also Spanish
Izabela
“my God is bountiful”
In Portuguese use, Izabela has a related form in Isabel. In Spanish use, Isabel carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Portuguese use, Izabela has a related form in Isabel. In Spanish use, Isabel carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Izabela comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Spanish Isabel, from Old Occitan Elisabel, from Latin Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ, from Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (ʾĕlîšeḇaʿ), built from Biblical Hebrew אֵל (el) + נִשְׁבַּע (nishbá).
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Izabela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,835
- 0 boys · 1,835 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 95 babies
- 2025
- 37
- #3,939 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −14%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 37 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 3,939 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 14.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 95 in 2006. In 2025, Illinois had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (7). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,224 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.
Izabela’s family of names
In Polish usage, Izabela has a diminutive in IZA. In Polish usage, Izabela shares an earlier linguistic root with Elżbieta. In Polish usage, Izabela has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Isabella.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Izabela has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
11 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 39
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- IsabellaItalian, Swedish
- Elizabethequivalent
- IsabelleFrench
- Elisabethequivalent
- Lisaequivalent
- Bettyequivalent
- Lizequivalent
- Lizaequivalent
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- Betsyequivalent
- Tinaequivalent
- Ilseequivalent
- Lieslequivalent
- Ilsaequivalent
- Elspethequivalent
- Elisabetequivalent
- Betinaequivalent
- Elizabetequivalent
- Elisabettaequivalent
- Ilzeequivalent
- Sabelequivalent
- Liisaequivalent
- Tineequivalent
- Liseequivalent
- Elizabetaequivalent
- Erzsébetequivalent
- Elžbietaequivalent
- Élisabethequivalent
- Ealisaidequivalent
- Liesbethequivalent
- Elesbedequivalent
- Liisiequivalent
- Alžbětaequivalent
- Elizabetoequivalent
- Ísabellaequivalent
- Elżbietadoublet · Polish
- Eskeequivalent
- Ilzaequivalent
- Изабе́ллаRussian
- ІзабелаBelarusian
See also 8
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Izabela
- Izabella ScorupcoPolish-Swedish model, actress and singerborn 1970
- Izabela CzartoryskaPolish princess (1746–1835)
- Izabella MikoPolish actress and dancerborn 1981
- Princess Isabella of BavariaBavarian and Savoyard Royal (1863–1924)
- Izabela VidovicAmerican actressborn 2001
- Izabela Jaruga-NowackaPolish politician (1950-2010)
- Isabel BruceQueen of Norway1272–1358
- Izabela TrojanowskaPolish singer and film actressborn 1955
- Izabela KunaPolish actressborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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