Isa

Where Isa comes from

From Isabel, Isabella and Isabelle.
— Wiktionary's entry for Isa
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #405
    17 babies named Isa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #754.
  4. 1933
    Isa II of Bahrain born
    Emir of Bahrain
  5. 1951
    Isa Mustafa born
    Kosovo Albanian politician
  6. 1995
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Isabel or of its variant forms, sometimes also used as a formal given name.
  • A male given name from Arabic mainly used by Muslims.
Namesakes
  • Isa Mustafa · Kosovo Albanian politician, born 1951
  • Isa II of Bahrain · Emir of Bahrain, 1933–1999
  • Isa Boletini · Kosovo Albanian guerilla leader, 1864–1916
  • Isa Gambar · Azerbaijani politician, born 1957
  • Isa Briones · American actor, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.