Isa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Иса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more, Jesus in ES Spain, PE Peru, EC Ecuador, Іса in UA Ukraine and Ისა in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Isa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name325K records spelled Isa107 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Spain

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Issa, Isä, Ïsä, Isá, Issä

• English given name219K records spelled Isa32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, Netherlands, United States, Brazil

  Languages: English, Western Frisian, Dutch

  Also written Issa, Işa, Ïsã, Is-A, Isã

• Indonesian given name200K records spelled Isa7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, India

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Işa, Ïŝä, Ísa, Isã, Ïsã

• Hindi given name54K records spelled Isa7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, Nigeria

  Also written Işa, Isā, Isa️, Ïsä, ̈isa

• French given name33K records spelled Isa30 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Also written Ïssa, Īssa, Îssâ, Íssá, Îssà

77 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Isa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• wife of Aniruddha also known as Usa (P);

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• Originally a short form of Isabel and related names (the mining centre of Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia, was named by the prospector John Campbell Miles after his sister Isabella), but now more commonly used as an independent first name, pronounced ‘eye-za’.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Arabic, written with characters meaning ‘that’ and ‘help’. The name is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, Initialism of instruction set architecture.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Turkish, 1. Allah’ın yarlıgaması, mağfireti. 2. Dört büyük Peygamberden Hristiyanlığın kurucusu, doğumu Türkiye’de ve Batı’da takvim başlangıcı sayılan peygamber.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Al-Mu'azzam Isab. 1176EGAyyubid Sultan of Damascus 1218–1227
• Isa I of Bahrainb. 1848BHHakim of Bahrain (1848–1932)
• Isa Barzizzab. 1929ITItalian actress (1929–2023)
• Isa II of Bahrainb. 1933BHEmir of Bahrain (1961-1999)
• Isa Danielib. 1937ITItalian actress
• Isa Genzkenb. 1948DEGerman sculptor (born 1948)
• Isa Mustafab. 1951XKKosovo Albanian politician (born 1951)
• Isa Gambarb. 1957AZAzerbaijani politician (born 1957)
• Isa Hoesb. 1967NLDutch actress
• Isa Brionesb. 1999GBAmerican actor (born 1999)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,465 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Isa?

We estimate roughly 708 thousand people bear Isa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Isa have the most bearers?

Isa is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled isa.

Where is Isa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Isa is densest in Spain — about 1 in 195 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.

How common is Isa compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Isa is the 44th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Isa a male or female name?

Isa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Isa mean?

Recorded meaning: a king who was the son of Vatsara (P); a Rsi (P)