Isla

Where Isla comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Isla.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Isla through the years
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #897 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1944
    Isla Blair born
    British actress
  3. 1976
    Isla Fisher born
    Australian actress and author
  4. 2025
    Peak, #28
    6,012 babies named Isla, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • 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.
Namesakes
  • Isla Fisher · Australian actress and author, born 1976
  • Isla Blair · British actress, born 1944
  • Isla Phillips · granddaughter of Anne, Princess Royal; great-granddaughter of Elizabeth II, born 2012
  • Isla Bevan · British actress, 1910–1976
  • Isla Cameron · British actor and singer, 1930–1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.