Isatu

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Isatu is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sierra Leone it is the 30th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 439K◐
  • SLSierra Leone1 in 941
  • MLMali1 in 41K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈786 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
129 ●

4.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 439K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Isatu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7583.3K rec.1 in 439K758Isatu129
GB United Kingdom—384230 rec.——Isatu44
MY Malaysia—176176 rec.——Isatu2
AU Australia—10291 rec.—1Isatu26
SL Sierra Leone#3071202 rec.—14Isatu13
IN India—4759 rec.——Isatu3
CA Canada—3331 rec.——Isatu15
DE Germany—2822 rec.—listedIsatu25
NG Nigeria—2533 rec.——Isatu5
ML Mali#2962323 rec.——Isatu1
SE Sweden—16△6 rec.1 in 638K16—6
ES Spain—1410 rec.——Isatu6

Roughly 758 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 439K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.7K64%
  • Swahili4337%
  • Arabic3185%
  • French1873%
  • Spanish1853%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,72164%
Swahili4337%
Arabic3185%
French1873%
Spanish1853%

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◐

Isatu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name427 records spelled Isatu4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ïsatu

  • Arabic given name345 records spelled Isatu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Türkiye, Kuwait

    Also written Isatü

  • Amharic given name89 records spelled Isatu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Malaysia

    Also written እሳቱ

27 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●

Isatu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ttj, class 10 of -satu (“three”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

05101520002010202014 · 2002

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Isatu in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1993–2022
Yearrecords
19935
19945
19965
19975
19985
20016
200214
200310
20047
200514
200610
20079
20087
20108
20117
201210
20138
20158
201710
20187
20196
20207
20216
20225

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 24 years between 1993–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Isatu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020758#15,197
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#26,197
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#27,762
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16#27,593
SL Sierra LeoneNEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates201814#32
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200514—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200214—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—12#20,060
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201910—
SL Sierra LeoneNEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables201210#21
SL Sierra LeoneNEC/ECSL — 2012 parliamentary and Local Council nominated candidates201210#13
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201810—

Reference works 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Isatu?
We estimate roughly 786 people bear Isatu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Isatu have the most bearers?
We estimate about 758 people bear Isatu in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled isatu.
How common is Isatu compared with other names?
In Sierra Leone, Isatu is the 30th most common given name of 579 given names recorded there.
Is Isatu a male or female name?
Isatu is a female 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Isatu” — the 30th most common given name in Sierra Leone. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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