Isra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Isra(a) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’nattlig resa’, bildat till det arabiska sara ’att resa på natten’
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 35 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/isɾa/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Isra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 5.5Kfew records
- JOJordan≈1 in 7.9Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Isra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Isara in TH Thailand and Usara in IN India.
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)Isra(a) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’nattlig resa’, bildat till det arabiska sara ’att resa på natten’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Isra, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Isra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #423 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Isra | 11 |
| IN India | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 146K | 6 | Usara | 22 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Isra | 34 |
| TN Tunisia | #786 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Isra | 16 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | register #824,902 | Isara | 102 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Isra | 20 |
| US United States | — | 1,297 | 1 in 256K | 1.2K | Isra | 137 |
| SE Sweden | — | 692 | 1 in 15K | 692 | Isra | 14 |
| AL Albania | — | 305 | 1 in 10K | 305 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Isra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, travel by night
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In bno, fish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Islāma mitoloģijā - Muhameda nakts ceļojums uz Jeruzālemi ar spārnoto dzīvnieku Burāku
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Isra Girgrahb. 1971YEAmerican boxer
- Isra al-Modallalb. 1990EGHamas spokesperson
- Isra Hirsib. 2003USAmerican environmental activist (born 2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 35 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Isra mean?
- Recorded meaning: Isra(a) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’nattlig resa’, bildat till det arabiska sara ’att resa på natten’.
- How do you pronounce Isra?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /isɾa/; in Spanish /ˈisra/ (Wiktionary); in Indonesian /ˈisra/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Isra a male or female name?
- Isra is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Isra?
- In the etymology graph, Israa is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Isra?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Isra in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isra. After it come India, Türkiye, Tunisia and Thailand; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Isra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,297 people named Isra in 2020, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.
- How common is Isra compared with other names?
- In Syria, Isra is the 423rd most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Isra?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/israThe 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, “Isra” — the 423rd most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.