Izabell is a spelling variant of Isabel, from Hebrew Elisheba, meaning 'God is my oath.'
Izabell is a distinctive spelling of Isabel, one of the most traveled names in the Western tradition. Its ultimate ancestor is the Hebrew Elisheba — 'my God is an oath' or, in some interpretations, 'my God is abundance' — which became Elizabeth in its Greek and Latin forms. Medieval Iberian and Occitan speakers transformed Elizabeth into Isabel, and that form spread westward with the Crusader kingdoms and the marriages of medieval royalty.
The name became one of the defining names of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns. No bearer looms larger than Isabella I of Castile, whose reign from 1474 to 1504 reshaped the known world: she unified Spain with Ferdinand of Aragon, sponsored Columbus's 1492 voyage, and completed the Reconquista. Her name consequently became loaded with associations of power, ambition, and consequence that followed it across centuries.
Literary Isabellas proliferated in response — Shakespeare gave the name to the morally complex protagonist of Measure for Measure, and Byron named the suffering heroine of his tale The Prisoner of Chillon Isabella as well. The Izabell spelling, with its double 'l' and the 'z' replacing the 's,' gives the ancient name a contemporary visual energy while preserving all its deep history intact. The 'z' lends a crispness, a modern assertiveness, to a name that has been soft and regal for centuries. Parents choosing this spelling tend to want both the heritage and the individuality — a name that is recognizable at a glance but not quite like anyone else's.