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Ysabel vs Ysabelle

American parents have registered 1,723 Ysabels since 1880, against 514 Ysabelles. Ysabel is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ysabel against Ysabelle, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ysabel Ysabelle

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Ysabel for 99 years and Ysabelle for 4 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Ysabel Ysabelle
Total US births 1,723514
Most in one year 5125
Babies in 2025 228
Estimated living today 1,200510
Median age today 2216
Peak year 19982003
Best rank 2,651st girls4,943rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,554th10,917th
First recorded 18971994
Girls / boys 1,498 / 225514 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ysabels alive today are over 22; half the Ysabelles are over 16. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ysabel Ysabelle
England and Wales 12093
France 6070

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ysabel and Ysabelle.