Meaning not yet researched.
Isha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 176 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,085 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,085 in 2002; #1,276 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,276 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,085.
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Isha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 176 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,085 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 209 (2023).
In 2025, 176 US girls were named Isha, making it the 1,276th most common girls’ name of the year, down 74 places from #1,202 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 197 girls named Isha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,085, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 209, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,687 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isha in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 5,151 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,575 babies named Isha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,571 US girls were named Isha; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 209. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,132 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isha ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #557 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Esha (1,926 babies since 1880) and Iesha (7,467 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ishayu 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ishayu (6).
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 Isha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 12 | #557 | — |
| New Jersey | 12 | #639 | #683 |
| California | 44 | #705 | #1,360 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #936 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #975 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,070 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #1,135 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,261 | #1,133 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,298 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,625 | #1,605 |
| New York | 7 | #1,726 | #1,038 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2023 | 209 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 2019 | 164 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2016 | 132 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 2015 | 126 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2011 | 178 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 2003 | 167 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2002 | 196 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2001 | 193 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,623 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,185 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,425 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,167 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,288 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,957 | — | — |
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).