Isa

girls’ name · 53%boys’ name · 47%Comeback · modern nameCompare

Isa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 100 births. Its best rank was 411th, in 1881.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1000.01% of girls
Peak year: 2018103 births
Best rank: #411in 1881
Since 1880: 6,197people given the name

Babies named Isa, by year of birthgirlsboys

The story in the numbers

3,314 girls have been named Isa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 103 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2010s alone account for 23%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Isa is used for both sexes: 47% of its bearers are boys (2,883), most of them born around 2024.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Isa
1880s	129
1890s	142
1900s	124
1910s	176
1920s	156
1930s	117
1940s	83
1950s	74
1960s	133
1970s	188
1980s	180
1990s	194
2000s	392
2010s	771
2020s	455

In 2018, its biggest year

Isa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Isa

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Isha4,974 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.