Isa

Meaning: My God is an oath
Origin: Hebrew — Short form of Isabel, Isabella or Isabelle

Girl's name · #1717 in the US (2025) · Vintage

34% girls · 66% boys — About 66% of babies named Isa in recent years have been boys. Isa →

Popularity over time

Isa is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1881, when it ranked #411. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 3,400 girls since 1880, ranked #1717 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 4 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#37 in Netherlands (2025) · #320 in Belgium (2025) · #404 in Norway (2025) · #436 in Sweden (2025) · #885 in Ireland (2025) · #1,082 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,543 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,974 in Italy (2024) · #2,667 in Austria (2025) · #4,867 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,445 in Canada (2024) · #5,061 in France (2023) and 2 more.

Famous Isas

Isa Miranda — Italian actress (1905–1982)
Isa Briones — American actor (born 1999)
Isa Guha — English cricketer (born 1985)
Isa Genzken — German sculptor (born 1948)
Isa Dick Hackett — American producer and writer for Amazon (born 1967)

In stories & tradition

Isa — Operatic character in the opera Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund by Boris Blacher; lady-in-waiting

What Isas become

Among 473 notable people named Isa:

Entertainers appear 1.42× more often than among typical names — e.g. Isa Miranda, Italian actress (1905–1982).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Issa (#2871), Isa would rank around #1258 with about 180 births last year — the newborns split about 67/33 between Isa and Issa.

Similar names: Eiza · Arie · Isadora · Liza · Davie · Elsa

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