girls:
3.2k births since 1880
#3058 (46th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1915
#2444 (47th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1880
#3538 (54th percentile)
The name Isa is the #3,538 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,878 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 54.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,058 (46.5% percentile) for all time with 3,214 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,444 (46.7% percentile) for all time with 2,664 births since 1915.
Isa has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Isa is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 67.1% of babies named Isa were boys. Interestingly, until around 1996, the name was more popular for girls (81.3% girls from 1880 to 1995), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (59.0% boys from 1996 to 2023).
For girls, Isa reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #860) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 172 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Isa ranks #869 for girls (8.2% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 27.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Isa reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 18.0% percentile (ranked #747) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 92 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1994, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Isa is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #747 (18.0% percentile) with 92 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Isa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.8% confident that Isa is pronounced as EE-suh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-suh, at 30.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like IY1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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