girls:
789 births since 1975
#4927 (14th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1969
#2760 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1969
#5052 (35th percentile)
The name Issa is the #5,052 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,861 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 34.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,760 (39.8% percentile) for all time with 2,072 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #4,927 (13.8% percentile) for all time with 789 births since 1975.
Issa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Issa is available in 54 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (54 years for boys and 40 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Issa has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 63.7% of babies named Issa were boys.
For boys, Issa reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #809) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 58 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Issa is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #809 (11.2% percentile) with 58 births per million.
For girls, Issa reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 7.2% percentile (ranked #889) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 41 births per million (ranked 7.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Issa ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 84.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Issa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Issa", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Isa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Isa..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Issa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.8% confident that Issa is pronounced as IH-suh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-suh, at 37.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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