Isela
Isela is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 108 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1080.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1998196 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1926
- 5,824people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,824 girls have been named Isela in the United States since 1926, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 196 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 23%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Isela | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 12 | |
| 1930s | 22 | |
| 1940s | 67 | |
| 1950s | 144 | |
| 1960s | 232 | |
| 1970s | 903 | |
| 1980s | 704 | |
| 1990s | 1,153 | |
| 2000s | 1,312 | |
| 2010s | 776 | |
| 2020s | 499 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Isela was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Isela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aracelipeak 2002
- Marcelapeak 1999
- Giselapeak 1995
- Sheapeak 2005
- Noemipeak 2023
- Danyapeak 2007
- Mirellapeak 1997
- Annalisapeak 2005
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.