Entry № 4658 · Spanish origin

Isabel Isabel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ IZ-ah-bel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Consecrated to God (Isabel Allende; Queen Isabel I of Castile)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "consecrated to god (isabel allende; queen isabel i of castile)".

Isabel is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Elizabeth — from the Hebrew Elisheba ("my God is my oath"). A top-100 US baby name since 2007. Isabel Marant — French fashion designer.

Consecrated to God.

The name in its native script.

Isabel
Transliteration
Isabel
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪz.ə.bɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Isabel stands.

Isabel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Isabels before her.

Real people
Queen Isabel I of Castile
Spanish Catholic Monarch.
1451 – 1504
Isabel Allende
Chilean American novelist.
born 1942
Isabel Wilkerson
American Pulitzer journalist.
born 1961
In fiction
Isabel
Various Spanish literature.

Names connected to Isabel.

The number behind Isabel.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Isabel reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.