Isha
#1,272 for girls in 2025, 176 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 196 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,151since 1960
Isha over time
Rank among girls' names. Isha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,272 | 176 |
| 2024 | #1,202 | 197 |
| 2023 | #1,158 | 209 |
| 2022 | #1,355 | 172 |
| 2021 | #1,750 | 117 |
| 2020 | #1,552 | 136 |
| 2019 | #1,373 | 164 |
| 2018 | #1,595 | 134 |
| 2017 | #1,614 | 134 |
| 2016 | #1,644 | 132 |
| 2015 | #1,685 | 126 |
| 2014 | #1,583 | 136 |
| 2013 | #1,529 | 143 |
| 2012 | #1,583 | 137 |
| 2011 | #1,319 | 178 |
| 2010 | #1,481 | 152 |
| 2009 | #1,358 | 175 |
| 2008 | #1,479 | 158 |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 |
| 2006 | #1,722 | 121 |
| 2005 | #1,367 | 158 |
| 2004 | #1,314 | 162 |
| 2003 | #1,254 | 167 |
| 2002 | #1,084 | 196 |
| 2001 | #1,096 | 193 |
| 2000 | #1,632 | 108 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #2,627 | 47 |
| 1993 | #2,573 | 48 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 |
| 1988 | #3,095 | 32 |
| 1987 | #2,612 | 38 |
| 1986 | #2,384 | 42 |
| 1985 | #2,100 | 50 |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 |
| 1983 | #2,721 | 32 |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 |
| 1981 | #2,265 | 44 |
| 1980 | #2,342 | 41 |
| 1979 | #2,304 | 41 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 |
| 1977 | #2,124 | 44 |
| 1976 | #2,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #3,155 | 22 |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Isha! It came in at #5,696, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1963, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Isha is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#479 · 1 in 2,282
- Virginia#812 · 1 in 4,548
- Massachusetts#851 · 1 in 5,086
- Illinois#1,071 · 1 in 6,528
- North Carolina#1,179 · 1 in 7,326
Best ever in a state: #295 in New Jersey, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #479 | 16 | 1 in 2,282 |
| Virginia | #812 | 8 | 1 in 4,548 |
| Massachusetts | #851 | 5 | 1 in 5,086 |
| Illinois | #1,071 | 9 | 1 in 6,528 |
| North Carolina | #1,179 | 6 | 1 in 7,326 |
| California | #1,350 | 21 | 1 in 9,956 |
| Ohio | #1,419 | 5 | 1 in 10,315 |
| Georgia | #1,465 | 5 | 1 in 9,463 |
| Texas | #1,647 | 13 | 1 in 12,178 |
| New York | #1,962 | 6 | 1 in 15,379 |
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See more about Isha
- 70 spots since 2024 (#1,202 → #1,272)
- 280 spots since 2020 (#1,552 → #1,272)
- 413 spots since 2015 (#1,685 → #1,272)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2002 at #1,084 (196 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,677 girls born in 2023 were named Isha (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,132 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,084 in 2002, was only 1 in 9,168 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.6% of all girls named Isha (1,575) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22 | #5,696 (1960) | #6,381 |
| 1970s | 238 | #2,124 (1977) | #3,253 |
| 1980s | 387 | #2,100 (1985) | #2,573 |
| 1990s | 486 | #2,222 (1999) | #2,625 |
| 2000s | 1,575 | #1,084 (2002) | #1,393 |
| 2010s | 1,436 | #1,319 (2011) | #1,541 |
| 2020s | 1,007 | #1,158 (2023) | #1,382 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Isha in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 12,854 of them was named Isha, which outranked 91.9% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,575Nariah138
- #1,575Palmer138
- #1,575Sandy138
- #1,583Isha137
- #1,583Harmonie137
- #1,583Kacie137
- #1,583Kennadi137
- #1,591Amarie136
- #1,591Avril136
- #1,591Deja136
Tied with 7 names at #1,583; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.