Issa

maleStatistical record

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

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

Issa: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #539, and it stood at #630 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#539highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2020–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2020	#3117
2021	#5581
2022	#3533
2024	#4192

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

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

In 2024: #630 among boys in England and Wales, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #539 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Issa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 867 births with the name.

Issa across 3 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.

Issa'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 · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#539 (2023)	#630 (2024)	29 of 29	867 (1996–2024)	71 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#3117 (2020)	#3117 (2020)	#4192 (2024)	4 of 5	21 (2020–2024)	7 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#741 (2020)	#657 (2022)	#785 (2024)	4 of 5	13 (2020–2024)	4 (2022)

Issa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Issa in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	187	10 of 10	19
2010s	381	10 of 10	38
2020sbusiest	274	5 of 10	55

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 55 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 28, from 43 to 71.

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

Issa 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #539 in England and Wales in 2023.

Issa'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	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#630	60	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#539	71	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#758	43	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#659	55	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#723	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#731	45	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#870	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#684	51	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1022	28	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#833	37	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#821	37	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#901	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#812	37	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#854	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1067	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#987	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#926	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1016	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1014	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1038	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#945	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	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 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #539, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 71 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 24 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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Israr · #938, 20y
Issabelle · #1656, 17y
Issac · #324, 30y

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.

Devan · #540, 29y
Laylah · #540, 28y
Rocky · #538, 29y
Anish · #537, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Dulcie · #539, 29y
Aditya · #538, 28y
Devan · #540, 29y
Laylah · #540, 28y

Issa was ranked #539 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. 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.

Issa 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 Issa without appearing here.

Issa moved ahead of

Anders Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1651 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #945 and #2857.
Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2863 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1167 and #3036.
Fredrik Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2859 and #2337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1263 and #2901.
Gustav Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2859 and #2859 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1263 and #2901.

Moved ahead of Issa

Arlo Compare
In 2003 they stood at #945 and #1188 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1038 and #875.
Kasper Compare
In 2023 they stood at #539 and #561 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #630 and #529.

Moved the opposite way to Issa

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Issa

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Issa went from #2863 to #630 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #539 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Issa

Issa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Issa across 3 official records

Issa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Issa across 3 official records

Issa by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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