Isola
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Isola has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1889. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Isola, 2021
1 in 565,000
Isola over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Isola?
Isola had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Isola sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Isolas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Isola was born before 1917 — so the typical Isola is around 108 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 32.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Isola 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (15)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.0% average annual change
Spellings of Isola
Isola is not the most common spelling — Viola is, with 25.6% against Isola's 0.06%.
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 Isola is used
Across 1910–2025, Isola was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 411,993 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
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. Isola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Isola around the world
Where Isola 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 & Wales2000–2004#4,598in 2004
- France1915–1928#960in 1928
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Isola by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Isola
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Isola
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.