Isra

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Isra: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #240, reached in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#240highest recorded position
7groupings 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	#1646
1997	#1543
1998	#1480
1999	#928
2000	#833
2001	#962
2002	#1151
2003	#818
2004	#736
2005	#729
2006	#717
2007	#742
2008	#618
2009	#654
2010	#485
2011	#464
2012	#480
2013	#500
2014	#478
2015	#625
2016	#485
2017	#541
2018	#540
2019	#453
2020	#433
2021	#389
2022	#311
2023	#289
2024	#298

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 2025: #240 among girls in Norway, #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1646 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
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Isra 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 1,936 births with the name.

Isra 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.

Isra'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	#1646 (1996)	#289 (2023)	#298 (2024)	29 of 29	1,936 (1996–2024)	153 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#834 (2020)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	5 of 6	18 (2020–2025)	4 (2021)

Isra 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 Isra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	4 of 10	14
2000s	382	10 of 10	38
2010s	847	10 of 10	85
2020sbusiest	651	5 of 10	130

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 130 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births rose by 27, from 56 to 83.

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

Isra 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #240 in Norway in 2025.

Isra'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	#298	144	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#289	153	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#311	141	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#389	115	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#433	98	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#453	93	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#540	77	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#541	80	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#485	89	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#625	66	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#500	85	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#480	92	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#464	92	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#485	83	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#654	56	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#618	60	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#742	45	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#717	43	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#729	41	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#736	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1151	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#962	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#833	27	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#928	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#240	17	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #240, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 153 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 29 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.

Isobelle · #265, 30y
Isolde · #443, 27y
Israa · #856, 26y
Israel · #92, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Amirah · #240, 30y
Arjun · #240, 30y
Bobbie · #238, 30y
Kenan · #242, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amirah · #240, 30y
Arjun · #240, 30y
Frazer · #240, 29y
John-Paul · #240, 29y

Isra was ranked #240 in Norway · Girls in 2025. 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.

Isra 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 Isra without appearing here.

Isra moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1480 and #1392 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #928 and #2189.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1646 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1543 and #2738.
Vicki Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1480 and #1319 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #928 and #1970.
Carol Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1480 and #1480 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #928 and #1805.

Moved ahead of Isra

Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #485 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #464 and #261.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #464 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #480 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #464 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #480 and #294.
Alma Compare
In 2016 they stood at #485 and #529 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #541 and #413.

Moved the opposite way to Isra

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Isra

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Isra went from #1646 to #298 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #240 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Isra

Isra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Isra across 2 official records

Isra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Isra appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Isra at a glance

Isra across 2 official records

Isra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Isra appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Isra

Isra and the names beside it

Isra moved ahead of

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