Meaning not yet researched.
Isla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6,012 in 2025. Its best rank was #28 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.8% of babies named Isla in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#28 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Isla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6,012 girls in 2025. Peak: #28 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 6,012 (2025).
In 2025, 6,012 US girls were named Isla, making it the 28th most common girls’ name of the year, up 7 places from #35 in 2024. That is 630 more than the 5,382 girls named Isla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #28, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,012. For comparison, it was #142 in 2015 and #3,790 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isla in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 7 babies. In all, 58,271 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 32,205 babies named Isla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 45,039 US girls were named Isla; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 6,012. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isla ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #1 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 51 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Island (807 babies since 1880) and Islah (601 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Islay, Ilay and Izla 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 English and Scots. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Islay (378), Ilay (215), Izla (46), Eisla (29), Izlah (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 Isla 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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 40 | #1 | #64 |
| Rhode Island | 33 | #7 | #81 |
| New Hampshire | 50 | #9 | #65 |
| Montana | 32 | #10 | #69 |
| Delaware | 25 | #11 | #211 |
| North Dakota | 26 | #13 | #73 |
| Vermont | 15 | #14 | #34 |
| Minnesota | 146 | #14 | #52 |
| Michigan | 227 | #15 | #129 |
| Washington | 171 | #16 | #76 |
| North Carolina | 245 | #16 | #177 |
| Maine | 31 | #17 | #40 |
| Wisconsin | 117 | #17 | #92 |
| South Carolina | 95 | #18 | #215 |
| Florida | 445 | #19 | #133 |
| Idaho | 48 | #19 | #95 |
| Colorado | 141 | #19 | #103 |
| Ohio | 243 | #19 | #122 |
| Indiana | 148 | #20 | #159 |
| South Dakota | 25 | #20 | #238 |
| Massachusetts | 155 | #21 | #72 |
| Virginia | 178 | #22 | #158 |
| Utah | 100 | #22 | #85 |
| Alaska | 17 | #23 | #108 |
| Kansas | 67 | #23 | #121 |
| Pennsylvania | 229 | #23 | #151 |
| Connecticut | 73 | #24 | #201 |
| Arizona | 141 | #25 | #251 |
| Tennessee | 154 | #27 | #201 |
| Illinois | 205 | #27 | #143 |
| Iowa | 66 | #27 | #67 |
| Oklahoma | 74 | #27 | #185 |
| West Virginia | 32 | #30 | #205 |
| Oregon | 65 | #30 | #113 |
| Missouri | 109 | #30 | #186 |
| California | 606 | #34 | #133 |
| Georgia | 161 | #35 | #171 |
| Louisiana | 68 | #36 | #182 |
| Maryland | 84 | #37 | #165 |
| New Jersey | 147 | #44 | #174 |
| Kentucky | 70 | #45 | #171 |
| Wyoming | 7 | #50 | #113 |
| New York | 249 | #50 | #155 |
| Alabama | 64 | #51 | #186 |
| Nevada | 35 | #52 | #203 |
| Nebraska | 30 | #52 | #132 |
| Texas | 433 | #53 | #312 |
| Arkansas | 38 | #65 | #227 |
| New Mexico | 17 | #73 | #415 |
| Mississippi | 26 | #82 | #283 |
| District of Columbia | 9 | #82 | #104 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,012 | #28 | 7 | #10,084 |
| 2024 | 5,382 | #35 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5,386 | #33 | 6 | #11,379 |
| 2022 | 5,285 | #36 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5,542 | #34 | — | — |
| 2020 | 4,579 | #44 | 6 | #11,137 |
| 2019 | 4,043 | #57 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,410 | #82 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,879 | #103 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,521 | #127 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,272 | #142 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,135 | #151 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,912 | #167 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,385 | #230 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,208 | #268 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,099 | #297 | — | — |
| 2009 | 945 | #345 | — | — |
| 2008 | 493 | #624 | — | — |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,321 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,890 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,550 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,570 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,880 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,786 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,112 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,007 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,818 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,196 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,750 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,096 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,689 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,271 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,587 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,187 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,873 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,642 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,994 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,776 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,104 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,842 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,835 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,898 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,162 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,998 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,268 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,826 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,790 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,406 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,445 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,248 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,350 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,898 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1916 | 35 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1908 | 18 | #955 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1905 | 16 | #947 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1890 | 10 | #901 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1887 | 11 | #713 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #938 | — | — |
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).