Isabel Factsheet

Meaning
Hebrew via Greek and Spanish or Medieval Occitan - 'my God is an oath; God has sworn; God is an abundance/satisfaction'

England and Wales statistics
Anglo-Saxon record: no entries
13th century: no entries (60 Isabellas, #6)
Earliest birth record: Isabel Thorpe (b. 1538)
1550-1690: High: #10 (1580-1600);  Low: #18 (1680); slow rise and fall
1840-1905: High: #21 (1845); Low: #54 (1900); slow fall
1914-1994: no entries
2004: #49
2008: #50
2011: #66 (857 births)

US statistics
1880-2011: High: #83 (2003); Low: #528 (1965); gradual fall, small rise, beginning of a fall
2011: #128 (2396 births)