Isel

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Isel by the numbers

Isel was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 45 babies in 1994, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Isel

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Isel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Iselaa form of Gisela; pledge or hostage77 in the US (2017)
  • Izel17 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Isel

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