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Isra

#1,463 in 2025Girls' name

Israelite, through Israel

Isra has been given to 1,791 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #1,463 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Isra, 2025

1 in 22,600

Isra over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isra: meaning, origin, and history

Israelite, through Israel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isra means

Isra belongs to the name family reached through Isra → Israel. Its meaning is “Israelite”.

Origin, language, and formation

Isra is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Israel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Isra is pronounced /ˈisra/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,769 girls were recorded with the name Isra between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 147 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,463 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,267 in 2020 to #1,463 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,695 in 2015 to #1,463 in 2025.

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Isra between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,295 in 2024.

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 Isra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,600
147 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,463
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isra 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isra was born before 2017 — so the typical Isra is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,769
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (678).

Is Isra 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
+153
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+804
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,232
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (147)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,463
2025

Spellings of Isra

Isra is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 26.7% against Isra's 0.05%.

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 Isra is used

Across 2016–2025, Isra was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,282 girls, against 1 in 12,990 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

178 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,282
  2. 2New York1 in 9,091
  3. 3Virginia1 in 9,091
  4. 4Illinois1 in 12,500
  5. 5Ohio1 in 14,286
  6. 6Michigan1 in 16,667
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 16,667
  8. 8California1 in 20,000

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.

Isra around the world

Where Isra 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
    #294
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1995–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #238
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2025–2025
    #237
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #597
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2012
    #431
    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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Isra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,463
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 804
Best rank ever
#1,463
2025
Peak year
2025
147 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,769
Count in 2025
147

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,755
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,295
2024
Peak year
2024
7 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Isra

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

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Sibling names for Isra

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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