Isaya
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Isaya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Tanzania it is the 89th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Isaiah (book of the Old Testament of the Bible).
- TZTanzania1 in 1.5K◐
- KEKenya1 in 3.1K
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 77K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈194 ●
- Sources
- 52 ●
- 1 in 640K ◐
across 5 countries
6.8K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
Isaiah (book of the Old Testament of the Bible)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #357 | 9,300 | 736 rec. | — | — | Isaya | 27 |
| TZ Tanzania | #89 | 8,837 | 4.9K rec. | — | — | Isaya | 40 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 274 | 290 rec. | — | — | Isaya | 9 |
| US United States | — | 146 | 391 rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 146 | Isaya | 52 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 114 | 216 rec. | — | — | Isaya | 11 |
| IN India | — | 90 | 105 rec. | — | 5 | Isaya | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | 45 | 57 rec. | — | 1 | Isaya | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 30 | 19 rec. | — | — | Isaya | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 27△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 640K | 27 | Isaya | 4 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 17 | 0 rec. | — | — | Isaya | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 13△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 2 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 11 | 1 rec. | — | — | Isaya | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili17K78%
- English1.9K9%
- Hindi5653%
- French5142%
- Indonesian2611%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 16,777 | 78% |
| English | 1,859 | 9% |
| Hindi | 565 | 3% |
| French | 514 | 2% |
| Indonesian | 261 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 9 years between 1995–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 146 | #44,078 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 45 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 27 | #12,290 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 18 | #20,756 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #31,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #44,078 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #19,086 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Isaya?
- We estimate roughly 194 people bear Isaya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Isaya have the most bearers?
- Isaya is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled isaya.
- How common is Isaya compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Isaya is the 357th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Isaya a male or female name?
- Isaya 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 Isaya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Isaiah (book of the Old Testament of the Bible)
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About this data
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, “Isaya” — the 357th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.