Isa — #1965 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Isa

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,314 babies named Isa between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Isa currently holds the #1965 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 103 babies received it in a single year. Isa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,883 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Isa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 771 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Isa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 331 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Isa in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Isa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,314 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.