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that's th problem with popular names - they are beautiful, and everyone likes them - that's why they are popular!

Name for a good dancer and basketballer

In Spanish, the name is pronounced "ee-sah-BEL" with the stress on the last syllable.

Isabel and Blaise are anagrams of each other; they contain the same letters.

Isabel is a very classy name.

I prefer Isabel to Isabelle.

Personal experiences with the name Isabel

I named my daughter Isabel because I thought it could be cute as Izzy or sophisticated -- a girl named Isabel could definitely be President!

Our Isabel is adopted from Guatemala. We wanted a name that was Hispanic in origin but also crosses over culture.

My name is Isabel, but I go by Izzi. It was a good name when I was little, but now I am changing it to something more sophisticated, like Bella or just Isabel. It's a good name because it an have so many nicknames.

When I picture an Isabel, I picture her to be blonde and blue-eyed.

My name is Isabel but my friends call me Izzie. I never really liked the name growing up because I always felt it was spelled wrong. I wished my parents named me added the 'le' to make it feel more complete as Isabelle or the 'a' to make it Isabella. But now I can appreciate the reasons my parents chose it for me and I feel it has really come to suit me and I love that it has so many nicknames. Also, I have brown hair and green eyes.

I had a lot of nicknames growing up. From Bel, to Sabs, to Izzy. Now I go by Isa (which means #1 in my language, so cool!) or complete Isabel. It's always bothered me that people too often pronounced it the white way EEzuhbel even though it's spelled the Hispanic way and should be pronounced isaBEL. I felt that the whitewashing took away from my identity, but it's hard (and annoying) to always have to correct people. It's also been so often misspelled as Isabela (my last name starts w A so you already know how this would happen on my email address) or Isabelle or Isabella. I was named after Salma Hayek's movie because my mom wanted me to be as pretty as her.

Nicknames for Isabel

Bella
Belle/Bell/Bel
Bells
Bellie
Ibby/Ibbie
Isa/Issa
Izzy/Izzie/Izzi
Lizzie/Lizzy

Meanings and history of the name Isabel

Famous real-life people named Isabel

Isabel Flores y de Oliva, St. Rosa of Lima
Isabel Sanford, American actress
Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
Isabel Toledo, Cuban-born American designer
Isabel Bishop, American artist and painter
Isabel Bigley, American actress
Isabel Allende, Chilean-American writer
Princess Isabel of Braganza, known as the redemptress, daughter of Brazil's last emperor and responsible for the official abolition of slavery.
Isabel Ruby Lieberstein (b. 2008), daughter of American actress Angela Kinsey
Isabel Bedoya, American Instagram beauty influencer

Isabel in song, story & screen

Isabel, Isabel didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or scurry -- Ogden Nash poem
Isabel Archer is a character in Henry James's novel "A Portrait of a Lady."
"Maria Isabel", a song that talks about inviting a young lady to put on her hat and go to the beach under the nice warm sun.
Isabel Dalhousie, heroine of Alexander McCall Smith's "Sunday Philosophy Club" series.
Isabel Vane--A character in the book, East Lynne (published in 1861)
Isabel - a song by The Wombats
Isabel Magnolia, a character from the manga and anime series Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin
Isabel Fuentes Whitman, from 1997 film Fools Rush In, portrayed by Salma Hayek