Isla

loc · Spanish · Latin script

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

Isla is a name, most frequently recorded in Paraguay. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Scottish, pronounced ‘ai-la’: 20thcentury coinage, from Islay, name of an island in the Hebrides pronounced thus.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 207◐
  • COColombia1 in 31K
  • MXMexico1 in 66K

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

≈51K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
142 ●

60K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 311 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Isle in FR France.

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●

Scottish, pronounced ‘ai-la’: 20thcentury coinage, from Islay, name of an island in the Hebrides pronounced thus.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Isla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PY Paraguay83,822114 rec.——Isla7
US United States24,750△2K rec.1 in 13K25K—142
FI Finland17,930△10 rec.1 in 31140K—3
MX Mexico10,4564.1K rec.—18Isla86
BR Brazil4,5750 rec.1 in 46K4.6K—1
SE Sweden2,196△11 rec.1 in 4.6K2.2K—7
CO Colombia1,06978 rec.——Isla18
ES Spain3213.7K rec.1 in 156K2.5KIsla121
AL Albania234—1 in 13K234——
NO Norway213—1 in 26K660——
VE Venezuela148663 rec.——Isla14
AR Argentina13317K rec.—3.9KIsla56

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

Languages●

  • Spanish102K42%
  • English15K6%
  • Maltese2421%
  • Portuguese421%
  • French361%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish101,82742%
English14,9866%
Maltese2421%
Portuguese421%
French361%

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◐

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

  • English given name102K records spelled Isla14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Îsla, Islá, Ĭšla, Islà, Islã

  • a separate name1.1K records spelled Isla3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ïslā

  • Hindi given name1.1K records spelled Isla6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Islã, Ïslä

  • a separate name997 records spelled Isla2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ísla

  • Thai given name581 records spelled Isla13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written อิสลา, อัสลา, Islah, Atsala, อสิลา

53 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●

Isla 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.

  • In English, A female given name transferred from the place name. Coined in the twentieth century from an archaic spelling of Islay, an island in the Hebrides.

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

  • In Spanish, island (area of land surrounded by water)

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

  • In Swedish, Se Ayla.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Origine écossaise, référence au nom d’une rivière.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Scottish: of recent origin, apparently taken from the usual pronunciation, /'a l /, of the island-name Islay . Masculine form: Islay (less common) .

    as a word

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●

02K4K6K8K190019502000

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Isla in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1886–2025
Yearrecords
18867
188711
18895
189010
18917
18926
18937
18946
18958
18967
18975
189812
18996
190013
19019
19029
19036
19049
190516
190611
190712
190818
19099
191014
191111
191216
191322
191425
191522
191635
191734
191834
191931
192023
192126
192241
192334
192422
192525
192627
192720
192826
192925
193023
193120
193221
193321
193412
193519
193624
193715
193812
193915
194010
194117
19427
19439
194414
19458
19465
19478
194810
19497
19509
19519
19528
19537
19625
19635
19645
19655
19765
19776
197810
19795
19815
19826
19835
198511
19865
19878
19888
19897
19909
199110
19928
19937
199415
199516
199613
199723
199825
199918
200037
200124
200229
200338
200435
200554
200692
2007178
2008493
2009945
20101,099
20111,208
20121,385
20131,912
20142,135
20152,272
20162,521
20172,879
20183,410
20194,043
20204,579
20215,542
20225,285
20235,386
20245,382
20256,012

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 119 years between 1886–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

17001800190020002100José Francisco de Isla, b. 1703Isla Bevan, b. 1910Isla Cameron, b. 1930Isla Blair, b. 1944Isla St Clair, b. 1952Pablo Isla, b. 1964Isla Fisher, b. 1976Isla Traquair, b. 1980Mauricio Isla, b. 1988Isla Elizabeth Phillips, b. 2012

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●

Attested in 85 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Isla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202025K#1,401
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20256K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—5.1K#657
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.3K#2,922
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—3.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.3K#4,348
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.5K#2,010
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.5K#2,009
GB United KingdomONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024)20242.1K#4
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)20231.1K—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/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 · 735 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Isla?
We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Isla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Isla have the most bearers?
Isla is most frequently recorded in Paraguay, where it is most often spelled isla.
What does the name Isla mean?
Recorded meaning: Scottish, pronounced ‘ai-la’: 20thcentury coinage, from Islay, name of an island in the Hebrides pronounced thus.
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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, “Isla”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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