Meaning not yet researched.
Isa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 253 in 2025. Its best rank was #933 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 68% of babies named Isa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#933 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Isa: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 253 boys in 2025. Peak: #933 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 253 (2025).
In 2025, 253 US boys were named Isa, making it the 933rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 91 places from #1,024 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 218 boys named Isa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #933, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 253. For comparison, it was #1,485 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 119 US girls were named Isa, making it the 1,717th most common girls’ name of the year, up 256 places from #1,973 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 100 girls named Isa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #411, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 119, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,486 in 2015 and #5,611 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isa in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 5 babies with the name. In all, 6,575 US babies have been given the name, 52% of them girls and 48% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,820 babies named Isa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,544 US boys were named Isa; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 253. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,751 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isa ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #464 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880), Isabel (133,977 babies since 1880), Isadora (4,668 babies since 1880) and Issa (3,217 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Izza, Eissa and Eza are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Izza (175), Eissa (157), Eza (6), Easa (5), Iyza (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Isa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 17 | #464 | #756 |
| Illinois | 19 | #523 | #1,239 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #530 | #905 |
| New York | 30 | #536 | #1,188 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #642 | #572 |
| Michigan | 11 | #691 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #731 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #744 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #750 | — |
| Texas | 32 | #834 | #1,991 |
| California | 27 | #870 | #1,346 |
| Florida | 14 | #976 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,060 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,194 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,717 | 253 | #933 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,973 | 218 | #1,024 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,250 | 171 | #1,185 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,937 | 125 | #1,450 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,354 | 153 | #1,247 |
| 2020 | 92 | #2,026 | 139 | #1,301 |
| 2019 | 94 | #2,038 | 119 | #1,464 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,929 | 123 | #1,424 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,171 | 129 | #1,373 |
| 2016 | 74 | #2,467 | 114 | #1,492 |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,486 | 112 | #1,485 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,059 | 98 | #1,602 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,784 | 95 | #1,617 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,816 | 109 | #1,483 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,744 | 74 | #1,892 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,022 | 76 | #1,890 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,174 | 77 | #1,877 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,094 | 70 | #2,013 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,144 | 66 | #2,077 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,952 | 55 | #2,299 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,184 | 61 | #2,042 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,459 | 51 | #2,262 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,138 | 41 | #2,524 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,963 | 55 | #2,007 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,259 | 36 | #2,647 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,378 | 35 | #2,644 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,780 | 43 | #2,183 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,022 | 27 | #2,959 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,714 | 21 | #3,392 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,171 | 24 | #3,060 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,096 | 22 | #3,138 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,829 | 13 | #4,632 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,568 | 17 | #3,726 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,006 | 23 | #2,943 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,504 | 20 | #3,162 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,571 | 16 | #3,680 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,940 | 22 | #2,824 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,135 | 15 | #3,420 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,176 | 6 | #6,426 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,892 | 12 | #3,727 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,030 | 10 | #4,172 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,048 | 12 | #3,548 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,004 | 18 | #2,612 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,404 | 18 | #2,632 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,207 | 16 | #2,824 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,352 | 19 | #2,575 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,103 | 12 | #3,435 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,826 | 15 | #2,845 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,953 | 13 | #3,096 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,440 | 10 | #3,584 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,196 | 13 | #2,977 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,352 | 6 | #4,877 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,942 | 8 | #3,849 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,445 | 7 | #4,164 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,562 | 6 | #4,625 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,048 | 6 | #4,140 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,391 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,633 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,580 | 6 | #3,796 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,534 | — | — |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,670 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,782 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,674 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,027 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,460 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,091 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,082 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,611 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,244 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,238 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,770 | 5 | #4,551 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,300 | 6 | #3,611 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1907 | 16 | #963 | — | — |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1901 | 17 | #809 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #902 | — | — |
| 1899 | 13 | #919 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1897 | 19 | #728 | — | — |
| 1896 | 19 | #738 | — | — |
| 1895 | 12 | #958 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #876 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #988 | — | — |
| 1892 | 17 | #713 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #817 | — | — |
| 1890 | 18 | #626 | — | — |
| 1889 | 14 | #703 | — | — |
| 1888 | 17 | #620 | — | — |
| 1887 | 14 | #620 | — | — |
| 1886 | 17 | #546 | — | — |
| 1885 | 14 | #591 | — | — |
| 1884 | 12 | #625 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #784 | — | — |
| 1882 | 12 | #548 | — | — |
| 1881 | 17 | #411 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #875 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).