Isha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Isha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Isha: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #280 in 2003, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#280highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#874
1998	#683
1999	#721
2000	#497
2001	#331
2002	#289
2003	#280
2004	#288
2005	#306
2006	#366
2007	#398
2008	#341
2009	#367
2010	#401
2011	#414
2012	#423
2013	#434
2014	#629
2015	#775
2016	#666
2017	#814
2018	#826
2019	#920
2020	#928
2021	#936
2022	#910
2023	#727
2024	#826

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #412 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #826 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #280 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Isha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,237 births with the name.

Isha across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Isha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#280 (2003)	#826 (2024)	29 of 29	2,237 (1996–2024)	145 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#412 (2024)	#718 (2025)	7 of 17	31 (2009–2025)	9 (2024)

Isha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Isha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	111	4 of 10	28
2000sbusiest	1,189	10 of 10	119
2010s	729	10 of 10	73
2020s	208	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 119 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2000 and 2001, when recorded births rose by 48, from 59 to 107.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Isha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #280 in England and Wales in 2003.

Isha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#826	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#727	50	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#936	37	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#928	38	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#920	39	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#826	45	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#666	63	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#775	50	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#629	64	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#434	97	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#423	108	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#414	106	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#401	110	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#367	118	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#341	132	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#398	104	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#366	114	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#306	136	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#288	144	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#280	145	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#289	130	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#331	107	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#497	59	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#721	32	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#683	35	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#874	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#412	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #280, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 145 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 13 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ishaal · #2233, 18y
Ishaan · #454, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Erick · #280, 28y
Buddy · #282, 27y
Carine · #278, 31y
Kato · #282, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Elis · #280, 30y
Joss · #280, 31y
Wilson · #280, 29y
Anna-Rose · #281, 22y

Isha was ranked #280 in England and Wales · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Isha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Isha without appearing here.

Isha moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 1997 they stood at #874 and #820 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #683 and #1392.
Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1031 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #874 and #1450.
Sinead Compare
In 2015 they stood at #775 and #722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #666 and #1241.
Tayla Compare
In 2015 they stood at #775 and #760 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #666 and #1241.

Moved ahead of Isha

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #920 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #928 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #666 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #814 and #499.
Mina Compare
In 2016 they stood at #666 and #681 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #814 and #533.
Audrey Compare
In 2013 they stood at #434 and #437 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #629 and #386.

Moved the opposite way to Isha

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isha went from #331 to #826 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isha went from #288 to #826 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Vicki Compare
Between 1996 and 2012 in England and Wales · Girls, Isha went from #1031 to #423 while Vicki went from #848 to #5876.
Martine Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Isha went from #1031 to #414 while Martine went from #2350 to #4764.

Moved the same way as Isha

Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isha went from #497 to #826 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isha went from #289 to #826 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #280 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Isha

Isha at a glance

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Isha across 2 official records

Isha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Isha across 2 official records

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