Isaura
Isaura was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,631 among girls’ names; 1,520 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Isaura and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isaura by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Isaura mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Isaura is “a female given name”
Borrowed from Latin Isaura.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Isaura?
#7,631 among girls’ names, 2025
Isaura fell from #7,405 in 2015 to #7,631 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 8.7 per million.
63 babies in 2007, the peak
Isaura peaked in 2007, when 63 girls were given it, #2,872 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,631 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,374 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,236 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,290 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,837 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,350 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,303 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,836 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,570 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,580 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,405 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,822 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,296 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,772 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,221 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,040 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,048 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,734 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,872 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,440 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,668 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,555 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,055 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,212 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,891 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,223 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,775 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,594 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,934 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,573 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,889 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,470 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,448 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,287 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,898 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,096 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,059 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,052 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,121 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,304 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,113 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,694 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,208 | 26.3 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,043 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,371 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,337 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,103 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,102 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,527 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,858 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,197 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,474 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,662 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,812 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,864 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,631 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,304 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,484 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,945 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,360 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,955 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,836 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,680 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,682 | 3.9 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,200 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,482 | 5.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,244 | 3.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,924 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,335 | 7.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,004 | 5.6 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,697 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,087 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,831 | 6.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,945 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,041 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,720 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,503 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,504 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,650 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,508 | 7.5 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,214 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,024 | 6.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,750 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isaura a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isaura has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Isaura: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isaura, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,520 Americans ever recorded as Isaura. The median Isaura alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 3,596 people named Isaura (3,591 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 506 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 476 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Isaura born?
The states with the most babies named Isaura are California, Texas and New York, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 460 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Texas | 173 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Isaura is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Isaura is most over-represented in California: since 1916 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Isaura with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,311 babies since 1880, Isaura is the second most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 166 babies (8.4%), again the second most given.
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 Isaura
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 Isaura and names like it
- Compare Isaura and IsraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIsaura peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isaura since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Isaura: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Isaura.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Isaura alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with IMost given first.