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Idrissa

#11,172 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Idris

Idrissa has been given to 175 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #11,172 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Idrissa, 2025

1 in 553,000

Idrissa over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Idrissa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Idris

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Idrissa means

Idrissa is a form of Idris.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Idrissa is used in Western African.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Idrissa → Idris → Idris. The family’s proposed meaning is “lord”, recorded in Welsh with the source elements jʉð.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Idris.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 169 boys were recorded with the name Idrissa between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,102 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,026 in 2020 to #11,172 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,050 in 2015 to #11,172 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Idrissa between 1973 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1973; its best national rank was #7,772 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Idrissa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,172
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Idrissa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Idrissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Idrissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Idrissa was born before 2014 — so the typical Idrissa is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
169
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Choose a decade

2010s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Idrissa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,588
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,146
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,122
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2012 (14)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,102
2012

Spellings of Idrissa

Idrissa is not the most common spelling — Idris is, with 96.8% against Idrissa's 3.3%.

  • Idris96.8%5,031
  • Idrissa3.3%169

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Idrissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Idrissa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Idrissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Idrissa around the world

Where Idrissa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2022
    #3,450
    in 2022
  • France
    1973–2025
    #677
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Idrissa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,172
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,146
Best rank ever
#6,102
2012
Peak year
2012
14 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
169
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,772
1973
Peak year
1973
6 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Idrissa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Idrissa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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