Arabic origin
Source-reportedFrom Arabic عيسى (“Jesus”).
Sources for this account (1)
- Wiktionary: IssaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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01 / Meaning & origin
Issa is a masculine given name documented in English and French. English Wiktionary traces it to Arabic عيسى.
Separate records with matching spellings: Issa (English, French), Issâ (st-2bcbd2f1eb), Îssa (st-2532bfcd15), Îssâ (st-0968c125bc), Ïssa (st-c64cc52e73)
From Arabic عيسى (“Jesus”).
02 / Across borders
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12 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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United States, 2025: 98 boys (rank 1677). Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1900–2025 Spelling: ISSA
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1907 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1918 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1919 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1920 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1921 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1922 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1923 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1924 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1925 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1926 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1927 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1928 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1929 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1930 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1931 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1932 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1933 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1936 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1937 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1938 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1939 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1940 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1941 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1942 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1943 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1955 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1956 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1957 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1959 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | 5 | 1,270 | rounded |
| 1967 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | 5 | 1,401 | rounded |
| 1970 | 5 | 1,761 | rounded |
| 1971 | 5 | 1,176 | rounded |
| 1972 | 5 | 1,314 | rounded |
| 1973 | 5 | 2,303 | rounded |
| 1974 | 10 | 943 | rounded |
| 1975 | 5 | 1,314 | rounded |
| 1976 | 10 | 1,154 | rounded |
| 1977 | 10 | 977 | rounded |
| 1978 | 15 | 889 | rounded |
| 1979 | 15 | 798 | rounded |
| 1980 | 15 | 999 | rounded |
| 1981 | 25 | 704 | rounded |
| 1982 | 30 | 620 | rounded |
| 1983 | 25 | 666 | rounded |
| 1984 | 35 | 587 | rounded |
| 1985 | 40 | 538 | rounded |
| 1986 | 30 | 657 | rounded |
| 1987 | 35 | 570 | rounded |
| 1988 | 40 | 562 | rounded |
| 1989 | 35 | 607 | rounded |
| 1990 | 40 | 598 | rounded |
| 1991 | 45 | 559 | rounded |
| 1992 | 40 | 587 | rounded |
| 1993 | 40 | 619 | rounded |
| 1994 | 35 | 647 | rounded |
| 1995 | 40 | 630 | rounded |
| 1996 | 40 | 659 | rounded |
| 1997 | 40 | 656 | rounded |
| 1998 | 55 | 563 | rounded |
| 1999 | 55 | 576 | rounded |
| 2000 | 70 | 515 | rounded |
| 2001 | 80 | 503 | rounded |
| 2002 | 90 | 466 | rounded |
| 2003 | 80 | 512 | rounded |
| 2004 | 140 | 379 | rounded |
| 2005 | 125 | 428 | rounded |
| 2006 | 135 | 412 | rounded |
| 2007 | 165 | 360 | rounded |
| 2008 | 185 | 348 | rounded |
| 2009 | 210 | 309 | rounded |
| 2010 | 245 | 283 | rounded |
| 2011 | 285 | 242 | rounded |
| 2012 | 405 | 180 | rounded |
| 2013 | 430 | 176 | rounded |
| 2014 | 570 | 134 | rounded |
| 2015 | 560 | 133 | rounded |
| 2016 | 655 | 110 | rounded |
| 2017 | 640 | 113 | rounded |
| 2018 | 665 | 110 | rounded |
| 2019 | 650 | 109 | rounded |
| 2020 | 640 | 106 | rounded |
| 2021 | 695 | 105 | rounded |
| 2022 | 735 | 94 | rounded |
| 2023 | 820 | 81 | rounded |
| 2024 | 805 | 78 | rounded |
| 2025 | 800 | 74 | rounded |
Statistics count the spelling “ISSA” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
Moroccan footballer
American actress, writer and producer
Burkinabè association football player
Soviet general (1903–1979)
Cameroonian basketball player and football executive
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
