Isis
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/isis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Isis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.3K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 10K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
93,865 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Egyptian: seat, throne; goddess of fertility and birth
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Isis is read(measured from records)
Isis is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Isis in Spanish.
- Portuguese32%
ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic; also worshiped by (some) Greeks during the Hellenistic period and featured in Greek mythology, and by Romans involved in what was categorized as the Cult of Isis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Egyptian queen of the gods
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The gift of Isis; feminine.
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #856 | 93,865 | 1 in 2.3K | 94K | Isis | 144 |
| US United States | — | 12,086 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Isis | 251 |
| HN Honduras | #188 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Isis | 30 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Isis | 11 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,484 | 1 in 4.9K | 3.5K | Isis | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,291 | 1 in 5.3K | 3.3K | Isis | 15 |
| SV El Salvador | #867 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Isis | 20 |
93,865 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Isis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In egy, Egyptian: seat, throne; goddess of fertility and birth
as a nameAfrican Names
In German, weibl. Vom., der auf den Namen der ägyptischen Göttin zurückgeht.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Isis Pogsonb. 1852GBBritish astronomer and meteorologist
- Isis Mussendenb. 1959USAmerican costume designer (born 1959)
- Isis Kingb. 1985USAmerican model and actress
- Isis Gomesb. 1985BRModel
- Ísis Valverdeb. 1987BRBrazilian actress
- Isis Taylorb. 1989USAmerican pornographic actress
- Poon Lok Yanb. 1991CNnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Amba Jacksonb. 1995not in their usual namedaughter of Jade Jagger
- Isis Caljeb. 1998NLactress
- Ice Spiceb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 2000)
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)
Attested in 70 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 94K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 93K | #336 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 45K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 20K | #1,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,187 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 3.5K | #441 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 3.3K | #574 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2.6K | #1,183 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 611 | #336 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 367 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 128 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 98 | #2,187 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Isis come from?
- Egyptian: seat, throne; goddess of fertility and birth Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Isis have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 94 thousand people named Isis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isis.
- What are other forms of the name Isis?
- In the etymology graph, Isidora, Isidore and Isiac are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Isis?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 93,865 people named Isis in 2022, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Isis compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Isis is the 856th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Isis?
- A machine transcription gives /isis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Isis mean?
- In Portuguese, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
- Is Isis a male or female name?
- Isis is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What do you want to know about Isis?
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/isisThe 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, “Isis” — the 856th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.