Isola — girls' name
293 babies named Isola in U.S. Social Security records since 1889, with the highest year being 1916. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Isola was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Isola in 1916 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Isola
The Social Security Administration has registered 293 babies named Isola between 1889 and 2021, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Isola currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Isola performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Isola shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Isola in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Isola 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 293 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.
Isola at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Isola popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1889
- Peak year (1916)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 133 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
293 total births across 133 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1916 with 15 births in a single year.
Isola by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 95 births that decade — 32% of Isola's all-time total
Isola decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 79 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Isola's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Isola by state
Where Isola concentrates geographically — total births since 1889
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 5 | 1.7% |
5 of 293 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 1.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1889–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.