Isela
About 5,925 American babies have been named Isela since 1926, most of them around 1998. In 2025 it ranked 1,927th. About 5,700 Iselas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Isela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,925
- Estimated living today
- 5,700
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 1,015th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,927th
- First recorded
- 1926
How old the living Iselas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,925 babies given the name since 1926, about 5,700 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 180 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Iselas
- Isela Vega (1939–2021)Mexican actress
People named Isela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Isela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Isela is most concentrated in Arizona (5.3×), Texas (5.1×), California (4.5×), Illinois (1.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular girls’ names the year Isela peaked:
Isela among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Isela | 26 | 54 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.