Israa
Israa was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,145 among girls’ names; 675 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Israa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Israa?
#5,145 among girls’ names, 2025
Israa fell from #5,037 in 2015 to #5,145 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 15.6 per million.
41 babies in 2017, the peak
Israa peaked in 2017, when 41 girls were given it, #3,728 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,145 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,703 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,171 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,372 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,293 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,724 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,680 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,807 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,728 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,354 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,037 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,368 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,106 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,160 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,016 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,744 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,614 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,681 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,869 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,975 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,247 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,187 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,143 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,498 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,434 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,554 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,290 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,206 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,982 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,778 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,710 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,359 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,359 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,302 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,650 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,579 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Israa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Israa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Israa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Israa, and how old are they?
An estimated 669 Americans named Israa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,056 people named Israa (1,054 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 528 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,466 babies since 1880, Israa is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 177 babies (14%), 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 Israa
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 Israa and names like it
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