Entry № 4661 · French origin

Isabelle Isabelle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ iz-ah-BELL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Consecrated to God (Isabelle Huppert; Isabelle Adjani)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "consecrated to god (isabelle huppert; isabelle adjani)".

Isabelle is the French form of Elizabeth — from the Hebrew Elisheba ("my God is my oath"). A top-100 US baby name since 2007. Has worked with Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher 2001), Claire Denis, Paul Verhoeven, Hong Sang-soo, and Catherine Breillat — a uniquely sustained collaboration with the auteur-art-film canon spanning 50+ years and 150+ films. Isabelle Allende — covered separately as Isabel. Isabelle Daza — Filipino actress.

Consecrated to God.

The name in its native script.

Isabelle
Transliteration
Isabelle
Pronunciation
/ ˌɪz.əˈbɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Isabelle stands.

Isabelle 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.

Isabelles before her.

Real people
Isabelle Huppert
French actress.
born 1953
Isabelle Adjani
French actress.
born 1955
In fiction
Isabelle
Various French literature.

Names connected to Isabelle.

The number behind Isabelle.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Isabelle reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.