Isra
Isra was given to 147 girls in 2025, #1,463 among girls’ names; 1,791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Isra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Isra mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Isra is “a diminutive of the male given name Israel”
/ˈisra/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Isra?
#1,463 among girls’ names, 2025
Isra rose from #2,695 in 2015 to #1,463 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 37.0 to 91.5 per million.
152 babies in 2025, the peak
Isra peaked in 2025, when 152 babies were given it (147 girls, #1,463 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 129 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,463 | 91.5 |
| 2024 | 129 | #1,616 | 79.6 |
| 2023 | 123 | #1,683 | 76.7 |
| 2022 | 110 | #1,851 | 67.1 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,109 | 54.8 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,267 | 48.9 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,385 | 44.7 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,515 | 41.2 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,678 | 37.6 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,814 | 34.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,695 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,090 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,987 | 31.9 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,784 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,323 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,173 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,970 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,003 | 30.7 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,871 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,293 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,408 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,426 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,968 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,676 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,433 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,105 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,747 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,891 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,312 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,389 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,782 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,358 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,771 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,894 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,684 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,578 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,286 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,685 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,337 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,284 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,791 Americans recorded as Isra, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 147 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Isra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isra, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,791 Americans ever recorded as Isra. The median Isra alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,297 people named Isra (1,206 women and girls, 91 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,107 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 97 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,140 |
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 Isra born?
The states with the most babies named Isra are Texas, Minnesota and New York, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,238 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 20 | #275 | 6.9× |
| New York | 18 | #879 | 1.2× |
| California | 13 | #1,687 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 10 | #718 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,058 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #979 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,126 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,297 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,553 | 0.6× |
Where Isra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Isra is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1985 it was given 6.9 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 Isra 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,986 babies since 1880, Isra is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 152 of their 191 babies (80%), again the 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 Isra
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 Isra and names like it
- Compare Isra and IsauraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIsra peaked in 2025.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isra since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Isra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Isra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Isra alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.