Iisha
Iisha was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,023, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1977, the peak
Iisha peaked in 1977, when 21 girls were given it, #3,523 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #13,023 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,998 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,249 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,215 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,910 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,805 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,113 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,573 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,031 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,579 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 8 | #7,999 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,618 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,564 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,168 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,664 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,063 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,588 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,484 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,331 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,523 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,578 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,678 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,246 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,725 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Iisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 244 Americans named Iisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 210 people named Iisha (210 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Iisha?
Iisha is a less common spelling of Isha: SSA has recorded 254 Iisha and 5,151 Isha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,298 babies since 1880, Iisha is the seventh most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 176 babies recorded by SSA was a Iisha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Iisha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Iisha and names like it
- Compare Iisha and IshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sIisha peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Iisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Iisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with IMost given first.