Meaning not yet researched.
Issa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,535 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,535 in 2024; #1,682 in 2025. About 62% of babies named Issa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,682 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,535.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Issa: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,535 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 115 (2024).
In 2025, 98 US boys were named Issa, making it the 1,682nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 147 places from #1,535 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 115 boys named Issa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,535, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #2,396 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 59 US girls were named Issa, making it the 2,871st most common girls’ name of the year, down 580 places from #2,291 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 81 girls named Issa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,291, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #4,906 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Issa in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 3,217 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 974 babies named Issa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 891 US boys were named Issa; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 115. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,429 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Issa ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #613 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isa (6,575 babies since 1880), Essa (986 babies since 1880), Isai (7,385 babies since 1880) and Eesa (911 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Issa 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 13 | #613 | #839 |
| Ohio | 8 | #973 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,078 | #1,534 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,811 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,310 | #1,806 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,871 | 98 | #1,682 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,291 | 115 | #1,535 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,798 | 109 | #1,595 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,454 | 92 | #1,787 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,864 | 84 | #1,845 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,990 | 88 | #1,754 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,902 | 73 | #2,008 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,075 | 87 | #1,767 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,730 | 64 | #2,141 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,195 | 81 | #1,850 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,906 | 54 | #2,396 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,080 | 71 | #2,009 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,343 | 58 | #2,237 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,979 | 66 | #2,078 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,363 | 56 | #2,296 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,691 | 55 | #2,339 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,472 | 46 | #2,674 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,686 | 49 | #2,561 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,205 | 68 | #2,044 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,805 | 45 | #2,636 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,268 | 62 | #2,020 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,908 | 38 | #2,765 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,295 | 52 | #2,138 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,001 | 40 | #2,482 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,440 | 37 | #2,582 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,291 | 27 | #3,177 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,800 | 31 | #2,751 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,738 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,162 | 29 | #2,702 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,784 | 30 | #2,561 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,348 | 36 | #2,230 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,412 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,009 | 25 | #2,814 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,310 | 28 | #2,566 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,198 | 26 | #2,635 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,800 | 29 | #2,398 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,357 | 24 | #2,644 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,854 | 15 | #3,421 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,343 | 12 | #3,830 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,050 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,170 | 14 | #3,287 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,036 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,613 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,755 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,995 | 23 | #2,232 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,881 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,408 | 18 | #2,628 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,320 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,844 | 12 | #3,280 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,173 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,357 | 16 | #2,580 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,212 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,554 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,773 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,238 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,666 |
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).