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Isha

#1,276 in 2025Girls' name

Master, lord, ruler

Isha has been given to 5,151 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #1,276 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 209 recorded.

Babies named Isha, 2025

1 in 18,800

Isha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isha: meaning, origin, and history

Master, lord, ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isha means

Isha means “master, lord, ruler”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,151 girls were recorded with the name Isha between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 209 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,084 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,555 in 2020 to #1,276 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,687 in 2015 to #1,276 in 2025.

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.

How common is Isha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,800
176 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,130
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,276
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,057 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,057 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isha was born before 2009 — so the typical Isha is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (1,575).

Is Isha 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
−74
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+279
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+411
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.2%
Peak was 2023 (209)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,084
2002

Spellings of Isha

Isha is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 49.3% against Isha's 0.26%.

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 Isha is used

Across 2016–2025, Isha was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,571 girls, against 1 in 8,558 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

228 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,571
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,000
  3. 3California1 in 5,556
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 6,667
  5. 5Virginia1 in 7,143
  6. 6Ohio1 in 7,692
  7. 7Texas1 in 8,333
  8. 8Georgia1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Isha around the world

Where Isha 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
    1996–2025
    #696
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2009–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #2,936
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #685
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Isha

People whose public names include Isha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Isha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Isha. Linked forms have their own page here.

EshaEesha

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Isha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,276
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 279
Best rank ever
#1,084
2002
Peak year
2023
209 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,151
Count in 2025
176

Names similar to Isha

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

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Names with a curve like Isha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Isha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Isha

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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