Isla

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Isla is ranked 35th among girls in 2024 (5,367 births). Its best rank was 33rd, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #35down 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5,3670.33% of girls
Peak year: 20215,540 births
Best rank: #33in 2023
Since 1886: 52,217people given the name

Babies named Isla, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

52,217 girls have been named Isla in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 5,540 births — 0.34% of all girls recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2020, and the 2020s alone account for 50%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

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

By decade

Decade	girls named Isla
1880s	23
1890s	74
1900s	112
1910s	244
1920s	269
1930s	182
1940s	95
1950s	33
1960s	20
1970s	26
1980s	55
1990s	144
2000s	1,925
2010s	22,864
2020s	26,151

In 2021, its biggest year

Isla was the 34th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Isla

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

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.