Issa — #1530 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Issa

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,188 babies named Issa between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Issa currently holds the #1530 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 115 babies received it in a single year. Issa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 870 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Issa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 665 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Issa shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 275 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Issa in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Issa 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 2,188 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.