Isha
Isha was given to 176 girls in 2025, #1,276 among girls’ names; 5,151 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,080 Americans named Isha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Isha?
#1,276 among girls’ names, 2025
Isha rose from #1,687 in 2015 to #1,276 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.11 per 1,000.
209 babies in 2023, the peak
Isha peaked in 2023, when 209 girls were given it, #1,160 among girls’ names. The 176 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,276 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,202 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 209 | #1,160 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,357 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,753 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,555 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 164 | #1,375 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,602 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,615 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 132 | #1,645 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | #1,687 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,583 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,534 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,584 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 178 | #1,321 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,485 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,361 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,483 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,628 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,727 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,371 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,315 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 167 | #1,254 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 196 | #1,084 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 193 | #1,098 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,633 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,230 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,290 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,527 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,565 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,110 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,634 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,576 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,880 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,797 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,753 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,535 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,107 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,624 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,394 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,113 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,943 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,734 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,785 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,277 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,362 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,314 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,424 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,955 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,198 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,353 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,274 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,622 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,183 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,166 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,956 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Isha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isha, and how old are they?
5,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,151 Americans ever recorded as Isha. The median Isha alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 5,525 people named Isha (5,444 women and girls, 81 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 273 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 634 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
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 Isha born?
The states with the most babies named Isha are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 44 | #705 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,135 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #639 | 2.7× |
| Washington | 12 | #557 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #936 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,070 | 0.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,726 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,261 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,625 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,298 | 0.4× |
Where Isha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Isha is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1960 it was given 2.7 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 Isha 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,298 babies since 1880, Isha is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 176 of their 176 babies (100%), the most given that year.
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 Isha
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 Isha and names like it
- Compare Isha and IeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIsha peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isha since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Isha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Isha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.