# Isabel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Isabel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Isabel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel > Source revision: 1355800225 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) For other uses, see [Isabel (disambiguation)](/source/Isabel_(disambiguation)). Isabel Pronunciation /ˈɪzəbɛl/[1] Brazilian Portuguese: [izaˈbɛw] Gender Female Origin Word/name Spanish Region of origin Europe Other names Related names Elisheba, Elisabel, Isabella, Isabelle, Izabela, Isobel, Isobelle, Ishbel, Iseabail, Izabela, Ysabeau, Elizabeth, Ysabelle **Isabel** is a female name of Spanish origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of [Elisabeth](/source/Elizabeth_(given_name)). Arising in the 12th century, it became popular in England in the 13th century following the marriage of [Isabella of Angoulême](/source/Isabella_of_Angoul%C3%AAme) to the king of England. Variant forms and spellings include [Isabella](/source/Isabella_(given_name)), Ysabelle, [Isobel](/source/Isobel), and Isobelle. ## Etymology This set of names is a Spanish variant of the [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew) name [Elisheba](/source/Elisheba) through Latin and Greek represented in English and other European languages as [Elisabeth](/source/Elizabeth_(given_name)).[2][3] These names are derived from the Latin and Greek renderings of the Hebrew name based on both etymological and contextual evidence (the use of Isabel as a translation of [Elizabeth](/source/Elizabeth_(given_name))).[4] The variant form originated through the loss of the first syllable through [rebracketing](/source/Rebracketing) and the replacement of final /t/ with /l/ (as /t/ does not appear word-finally in standard Spanish).[5] Elisabeth was understood in Spain as a name with the masculine [definite article](/source/Definite_article) *el* "the", that is to say **El Isabeth*, from it, the short form **Isabeth* where the final *-el* was substituted to *-eth*, both for aesthetical reasons or feminization,[2] or the entire syllable *-bel* was substituted to *-beth*, by analogy with *bella* "pretty, beautiful". ## Notable individuals ### People - [Isabel I](/source/Isabella_I_of_Castile) (1451–1504), Queen of Castile and Léon (1474–1504), Queen consort of Aragon (1479–1504) - [Isabel](/source/Isabel%2C_Princess_Imperial_of_Brazil), Princess Imperial of Brazil (1846–1921) - [Isabel Aboy](/source/Isabel_Aboy), Spanish actress - [Isabel Allende](/source/Isabel_Allende), Chilean author and niece of [Salvador Allende](/source/Salvador_Allende) - [Isabel Barrows](/source/Isabel_Barrows), American stenographer - [Isabel Baumann](/source/Isabel_Baumann), Swiss bobsledder - [Isabel Bayrakdarian](/source/Isabel_Bayrakdarian), Canadian-Armenian lyric soprano - [Isabel of Beaumont](/source/Isabel_of_Beaumont), English noblewoman - [Isabel Alfonsa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies](/source/Princess_Isabel_Alfonsa_of_Bourbon-Two_Sicilies), Infanta of Spain and Countess Zamoyska - [Isabel Graham Bryce](/source/Isabel_Graham_Bryce), British public servant - [Isabel of Cambridge](/source/Isabel_of_Cambridge%2C_Countess_of_Essex), English noblewoman and Countess of Essex - [Isabel Carrasco](/source/Isabel_Carrasco), Spanish politician - [Isabel Casimiro](/source/Isabel_Casimiro), Mozambican sociologist - [Isabel Cleghorn](/source/Isabel_Cleghorn), British educationist and suffragist - [Isabel of Coimbra](/source/Isabel_of_Coimbra), Portuguese infanta and Queen of Portugal - [Isabel Cowe](/source/Isabel_Cowe), Scottish suffragist - [Isabel Maria de Alcântara](/source/Isabel_Maria_de_Alc%C3%A2ntara%2C_Duchess_of_Goi%C3%A1s), Brazilian noblewoman and Duchess of Goiás - [Isabel de Clare](/source/Isabel_de_Clare%2C_4th_Countess_of_Pembroke), Anglo-Norman noblewoman and 4th Countess of Pembroke - [Isabel de Castro](/source/Isabel_de_Castro), Portuguese actress - [Isabel de Forz](/source/Isabel_de_Forz%2C_8th_Countess_of_Devon), English noblewoman and 8th Countess of Devon - [Isabel de Herédia](/source/Isabel_de_Her%C3%A9dia), Portuguese businesswoman and Duchess of Braganza - [Isabel de Santa Rita Vás](/source/Isabel_de_Santa_Rita_V%C3%A1s), Indian author, playwright, theatre director and teacher - [Isabel Pinto de Vidal](/source/Isabel_Pinto_de_Vidal), Uruguayan feminist lawyer and politician - [Isabel de Villena](/source/Isabel_de_Villena), Aragonese writer of religious treaties - [Isabel de Warenne](/source/Isabel_de_Warenne), English noblewoman and Countess of Arundel - [Isabel de Warenne](/source/Isabel_de_Warenne%2C_Countess_of_Surrey), English noblewoman and Countess of Surrey - [Isabel de Madariaga](/source/Isabel_de_Madariaga), British historian - [Isabel del Puerto](/source/Isabel_del_Puerto), Mexican-American actress - [Isabel Derungs](/source/Isabel_Derungs), Swiss snowboarder - [Isabel Dias](/source/Bartira) also known as Bartira among other names, Brazilian and Amerindian figure - [Isabel dos Santos](/source/Isabel_dos_Santos), Angolan businesswoman - [Isabel Elizabeth Francis](/source/Isabel_Elizabeth_Francis) (1991–2022), Singaporean murder victim - [Isabel Escobar](/source/Isabel_Escobar), Brazilian-American environmental engineer - [Isabel Fillardis](/source/Isabel_Fillardis), Brazilian actress - [Isabel Godin des Odonais](/source/Isabel_Godin_des_Odonais), traveler in the Amazon Basin - [Isabel Granada](/source/Isabel_Granada), Filipino actress - [Isabel Ge Mahe](/source/Isabel_Ge_Mahe), Chinese businesswoman - [Isabel Gemio](/source/Isabel_Gemio), Spanish television presenter - [Isabel Getty](/source/Isabel_Getty), American singer-songwriter - [Isabel Hardman](/source/Isabel_Hardman), British journalist - [Isabel Hardwich](/source/Isabel_Hardwich), British electrical engineer - [Isabel Hodgson](/source/Isabel_Hodgson), Australian soccer player - [Isabel Ingoldisthorpe](/source/Isabel_Ingoldisthorpe) (1441–1476), English noblewoman - [Isabel Jesus](/source/Isabel_Jesus) (born 1970), Portuguese rower - [Isabel Jean Jones](/source/Isabel_Jean_Jones), English-born South African consumer journalist - [Isabel Lamberti](/source/Isabel_Lamberti), Dutch film director - [Isabel Stevens Lathrop](/source/Isabel_Stevens_Lathrop), American singer - [Isabel Güell i López](/source/Isabel_G%C3%BCell_i_L%C3%B3pez), Spanish composer, pianist, organist - [Isabel Leonard](/source/Isabel_Leonard), American opera singer - [Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima](/source/Isabel_Wiseler-Santos_Lima), Portuguese-born Luxembourgish politician - [Isabel Mendes Lopes](/source/Isabel_Mendes_Lopes) (born 1982), Portuguese politician - [Isabel Lucas](/source/Isabel_Lucas), Australian actress and model - [Isabel Macedo](/source/Isabel_Macedo), Argentine actress - [Isabel Marant](/source/Isabel_Marant), French fashion designer - [Isabel May](/source/Isabel_May), American actress - [Isabel McCorkindale](/source/Isabel_McCorkindale), Australian temperance activist - [Isabel Briggs Myers](/source/Isabel_Briggs_Myers), American writer who co-created the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test - [Isabel Neville](/source/Isabel_Neville%2C_Duchess_of_Clarence), English noblewoman and Duchess of Clarence - [Lady Isabel Manners](/source/Lady_Isabel_Manners) (1918–2008), British socialite - [Isabel Newstead](/source/Isabel_Newstead) (1955–2007), British paralympic athlete - [Isabel Nicholas](/source/Isabel_Nicholas), British painter and costume designer - [Isabel Nkavadeka](/source/Isabel_Nkavadeka), Mozambican politician - [Isabel Nolan](/source/Isabel_Nolan), Irish artist - [Isabel Oli](/source/Isabel_Oli), Filipino actress - [Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer](/source/Isabel_Luberza_Oppenheimer) (1901–1974), Puerto Rican brothel owner - [Isabel Ordaz](/source/Isabel_Ordaz), Spanish actress - [Isabel Pantoja](/source/Isabel_Pantoja), Spanish singer - [Isabel Parra](/source/Isabel_Parra), Chilean singer-songwriter - [Isabel Weld Perkins](/source/Isabel_Weld_Perkins), American heiress, author, and society hostess - [Isabel Perón](/source/Isabel_Per%C3%B3n), [President of Argentina](/source/President_of_Argentina) (1974–1976) and third wife of [Juan Perón](/source/Juan_Per%C3%B3n) - [Isabel Pires](/source/Isabel_Pires) (born 1990), Portuguese politician - [Isabel of Portugal](/source/Isabel_of_Portugal%2C_Lady_of_Viseu), Lady of Viseu and natural daughter of King [Ferdinand I of Portugal](/source/Ferdinand_I_of_Portugal) - [Isabel Ribeiro](/source/Isabel_Ribeiro) (born 1955), Portuguese robotics engineer - [Isabel Abraham Ross](/source/Isabel_Abraham_Ross) (1885–1964), British teacher, suffragist, pacifist and biographer - [Isabel Ruth](/source/Isabel_Ruth), Portuguese actress - [Isabel Sanford](/source/Isabel_Sanford), American actress - [Isabel Seymour](/source/Isabel_Seymour), British suffragette and politician - [Isabel Giberne Sieveking](/source/Isabel_Giberne_Sieveking) (1857–1936), British suffragette, historian and writer - [Isabel Calvimontes](/source/Isabel_Calvimontes) (1790–1855), a Bolivian-born Argentine patriot; one of the Patricias Argentinas - [Isabel Toledo](/source/Isabel_Toledo) (1961–2019), Cuban-American fashion designer - [Isabel Waidner](/source/Isabel_Waidner), German-British writer and cultural theorist - [Isabel Wilkerson](/source/Isabel_Wilkerson), American journalist - [Isabel Bras Williamson](/source/Isabel_Bras_Williamson) (fl. 1430 – 1493), Scottish merchant - [Isabel Wolff](/source/Isabel_Wolff), British novelist - [Isabel Zapata](/source/Isabel_Zapata) (born 1984), Mexican writer, editor, poet and translator ## Fictional characters - Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James’s novel [The Portrait of a Lady](/source/The_Portrait_of_a_Lady) - Isabel Fernandez, character in the book *[Refugee](/source/Refugee_(Gratz_novel))* - Isabel Hoffman, [American Girl](/source/American_Girl) character - [Isabel Maru](/source/Isabel_Maru) / [Doctor Poison](/source/Doctor_Poison), character in *[Wonder Woman](/source/Wonder_Woman_(2017_film))* (2017) - Isabel Cristina "ChaCha" Ramirez from *[Primos](/source/Primos_(TV_series))*, a Disney carton ## See also - [All pages with titles beginning with *Isabel*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Isabel) - [Isabel (disambiguation)](/source/Isabel_(disambiguation)) - [Isabela (disambiguation)](/source/Isabela_(disambiguation)) - [Isabella (disambiguation)](/source/Isabella_(disambiguation)) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [churchofjesuschrist.org: "Book of Mormon Pronunciation Guide"](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/pronunciation?lang=eng) (retrieved 2012-02-25), [IPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English)-ified from «ĭz´a-bĕl» 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Dauzat_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Dauzat_2-1) [Albert Dauzat](/source/Albert_Dauzat), *Noms et prénoms de France*, Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par [Marie-Thérèse Morlet](/source/Marie-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Morlet), p. 337a. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Tanet_3-0)** Chantal Tanet et Tristan Hordé, *Dictionnaire des prénoms*, Larousse, Paris, 2009, p. 38[ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-2-03-583728-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-03-583728-8) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Guido Gómez de Silva, *Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española*, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1985. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Hanks, Patrick und Flavia Hodges. *Oxford Dictionary of First Names*. Oxford University Press, 1996, p.166. Name list This page or section lists people that share the same [given name](/source/Given_name). If an [internal link](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Isabel&namespace=0) led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Isabel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.