Isabel Name Meaning & Origin
Isabel
Origin of the name Isabel:
A Spanish variant of Elizabeth, which is from the Hebrew elīsheba' (God is my oath).
From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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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