Ïssá
surname · Latin script
Ïssá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 65th most common surname. Recorded meaning: A French spelling of an Arabic-derived form for Jesus. From Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or its derivatives (Wolof Isaa, Pulaar Iisaa etc.).
- ARArgentina1 in 61K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 81K
- SESweden1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,088 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Issa in US United States, AR Argentina, SE Sweden and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A French spelling of an Arabic-derived form for Jesus. From Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or its derivatives (Wolof Isaa, Pulaar Iisaa etc.).
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ïssá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,088 | 1 in 81K | 5.6K | Issa | 110 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,160 | 1 in 3.2K | 3.2K | Issa | 25 |
| MZ Mozambique | #65 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Issa | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 751 | 1 in 61K | 751 | Issa | 55 |
| NO Norway | — | 736 | 1 in 7.4K | 736 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 576 | 1 in 10K | 576 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 347 | 1 in 24K | 347 | — | 5 |
4,088 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ïssá mean, and where does it come from?
- A French spelling of an Arabic-derived form for Jesus. From Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or its derivatives (Wolof Isaa, Pulaar Iisaa etc.). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Ïssá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Ïssá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled issa.
- Where is Ïssá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ïssá is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ïssá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,088 people named Ïssá in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Ïssá compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Ïssá is the 65th most common surname of 2,021 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AFss%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ïssá” — the 65th most common surname in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.