Isabel
Isabel is a Romance-language feminine given name. It originates as the medieval Occitan form of Elisabeth, Arising in the 12th century, it became popular in England in the 13th century following the marriage of Isabella of Angoulême to the king of England. The modern French form is Isabelle, while the Italian form is Isabella.
History
This set of names is a southwestern European variant of the Hebrew name Elisheba, also represented in English and other western languages as Elisabeth. It first appeared in medieval Provençal as Elisabel. Guido Gómez de Silva states that these names are derived from the Latin and Greek renderings of the Hebrew name based on both etymological and contextual evidence.The variant form originated through the loss of the first syllable and the replacement of final with . Both forms of the name exist concurrently in Italian and French. Both names have been borrowed into multiple other languages, giving rise to various local forms.
Popularity
In 2013, Isabella was the tenth most popular name for girls in Australia.Notable individuals
- Isabel I, Queen of Castile and Léon, Queen consort of Aragon
- Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
- Isabel Aboy, Spanish actress
- Isabel Allende, Chilean author and niece of Salvador Allende
- Isabel Bayrakdarian, Canadian-Armenian lyric soprano
- Isabel Carrasco, Spanish politician
- Isabel Casimiro, Mozambican sociologist
- Isabel de Castro, Portuguese actress
- Isabel de Madariaga, British historian
- Isabel del Puerto, Mexican-American actress
- Isabel Escobar, Brazilian-American environmental engineer
- Isabel Fillardis, Brazilian actress
- Isabel Godin des Odonais, traveler in the Amazon Basin
- Isabel Granada, Filipino actress
- Isabel Ge Mahe, Chinese businesswoman
- Isabel Gemio, Spanish television presenter
- Isabel Getty, American singer-songwriter
- Isabel Leonard, American opera singer
- Isabel Macedo, Argentine actress
- Isabel Martínez de Perón, President of Argentina and third wife of Juan Perón
- Isabel Nkavadeka, Mozambican politician
- Isabel Nolan, Irish artist
- Isabel Oli, Filipino actress
- Isabel Ordaz, Spanish actress
- Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
- Isabel Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter
- Isabelle Rauch, French politician
- Isabel Ruth, Portuguese actress
- Isabel Sanford, American actress
- Isabel Toledo, Cuban-American fashion designer
Individuals named Isabelle
- Isabella of France, a disambiguation page
- Isabelle of Luxembourg, a daughter of Henry V of Luxembourg and his wife Margaret of Bar
- Isabelle of Orléans, a disambiguation page
- Princess Isabelle, a disambiguation page
- Isabelle Abiera, a Filipina actress and model
- Isabelle Adjani, a French film actress and singer
- Isabelle Antena, a French singer
- Isabelle Arnould, a retired Belgian female freestyle swimmer
- Isabelle Aubret, a French singer
- Isabelle Autissier, a French sailor, navigator, writer and broadcaster
- Isabelle Amyes, an English actress
- Isabelle Blais, a Canadian actress and musician
- Isabelle Blanc, a French snowboarder and Olympic champion
- Isabelle Boulay, a francophone Canadian pop singer
- Isabelle Boulogne, a French sprint canoer
- Isabelle Brasseur, a Canadian figure skater
- Isabelle Breitman, a French actress and director
- Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen, a French academic and historian
- Isabelle Carbonell, a Belgio-Uruguayan documentary photographer and filmmaker
- Isabelle Caro, a French model suffering from severe anorexia nervosa
- Isabelle Carré, a French actress
- Isabelle Champmoreau, a New Caledonian politician
- Isabelle Charest, a Canadian short track speed skater
- Isabelle Chartrand, a Canadian ice hockey player
- Isabelle Cheng, an intelligence agent
- Isabelle Collin Dufresne, a French-American artist
- Isabelle Corey, a French film actress
- Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, a French lawyer
- Isabelle Daniels, an American athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres
- Isabelle de Charrière, a Dutch-born writer of the Enlightenment
- Isabelle de Craon, a French noblewoman
- Isabelle Debré, a member of the Senate of France
- Isabelle Delobel, a French figure skater
- Isabelle Delorme, a Canadian composer, pianist and music educator
- Isabelle de Meulan, a French noblewoman
- Isabelle Demongeot, a former French professional tennis player
- Isabelle de Montolieu, a Swiss novelist and translator
- Isabelle Despres, a French slalom canoer
- Isabelle Devaluez, a retired French discus thrower
- Isabelle Diks, a Dutch GreenLeft politician
- Isabelle Dinoire, the first person to undergo a partial face transplant
- Isabelle Duchesnay, an ice dancer who competed for both Canada and France
- Isabelle Durant, a Belgian politician, member of the Ecolo party
- Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss -Algerian explorer and writer
- Isabelle Ferron, an actress in both film and stage
- Isabelle Fijalkowski, a retired French basketball player
- Isabelle Flory, a French violinist
- Isabelle Fuhrman, an American teen actress
- Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, an Italo-Belgian educationalist, feminist and politician
- Isabelle Goldenson
- Isabelle Guyon, French-born researcher in machine learning
- Isabelle Holland, an author of children and adult fiction books
- Isabelle Huppert, a French actress
- Isabelle Keith, an American actress
- Isabelle LaMal, an American film actress
- Isabelle Lendl, an American amateur golfer
- Isabelle Liberman, an American psychologist
- Isabelle Lucas, a Canadian-born British actress and singer
- Isabelle Mancini, a French cross country skier
- Isabelle Mercier, a Canadian professional poker player
- Isabelle Mir, a French former Alpine skier
- Isabelle Morneau, a defender on the Canada women's national soccer team
- Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys, a French athlete
- Isabelle Nanty, a French actress and film director
- Isabelle Nylander, a Swedish figure skater
- Isabelle Pasco, a French actress and model
- Isabelle Pasquet, member of the Senate of France
- Isabelle Pearson, Canadian judoka
- Isabelle Peretz, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal
- Isabelle Pieman, Belgian figure skater
- Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
- Isabelle Rampling, Canadian synchronized swimmer
- Isabelle Redford, American artist, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Isabelle Rezazadeh, also known as Rezz, a Canadian DJ and record producer
- Isabelle Romée, the mother of Joan of Arc
- Isabelle Sadoyan, French actress
- Isabelle Sandy, French poet and writer
- Isabelle Schad, German dancer and choreographer
- Isabelle Severino, French gymnast and actress
- Isabelle Simonis, Belgian politician from the Socialist Party
- Isabelle Stengers, Belgian philosopher and the daughter of the historian Jean Stengers
- Isabelle Stoehr, French professional squash player
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- Isabelle Stone,, American physicist
- Isabelle Story, American writer and editor
- Isabelle Turcotte Baird, Canadian athlete
- Isabelle Urquhart, American stage actress
- Isabelle Vasseur, member of the National Assembly of France
- Isabelle Valentin, French politician
- Isabelle Vengerova, a Russian-born American pianist and music teacher
- Isabelle Wendling, a French handball player
- Isabelle Wéry, a Belgian actress and writer
- Isabelle Westbury, an English cricketer
- Isabelle White, a British diver
- Isabelle Yacoubou, is a French of Bénin origin professional basketball player
Fictional characters
- Isabelle Andersson, fictional character in the Sune book series, Sune's younger sister
- Isabelle Kruger, a fictional character played by Marion Cotillard in the 2005 film The Black Box
- Isabelle, a Belgian comic book series
- Isabelle of Cornwall, the mother of Tristan in Arthurian legend
- Isabelle Tyler, a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400
- Isabelle, an anthropomorphic dog character who was introduced as the mayor's assistant in the Nintendo 3DS game title