Isla
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Isla is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Paraguay. In Spanish, recorded as island (area of land surrounded by water).
- PYParaguay
- ESSpain
- COColombia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Paraguay (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Scottish, pronounced ‘ai-la’: 20thcentury coinage, from Islay, name of an island in the Hebrides pronounced thus.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Isla is read(measured from records)
Isla is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish42%
island (area of land surrounded by water)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.1%
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.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Isla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Isla is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Scottish, pronounced ‘ai-la’: 20thcentury coinage, from Islay, name of an island in the Hebrides pronounced thus.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Se Ayla.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Origine écossaise, référence au nom d’une rivière.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Scottish: of recent origin, apparently taken from the usual pronunciation, /'a l /, of the island-name Islay . Masculine form: Islay (less common) .
as a word
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)
- José Francisco de Islab. 1703ESSpanish writer (1703-1781)
- Isla Bevanb. 1910GBBritish actress (1910-1976)
- Isla Cameronb. 1930GBBritish actor and singer
- Isla Blairb. 1944GBBritish actress
- Isla St Clairb. 1952GBBritish musician
- Pablo Islab. 1964ESSpanish lawyer and businessperson
- Isla Fisherb. 1976AUAustralian actress and author (born 1976)
- Isla Traquairb. 1980GBScottish journalist, TV host, and producer
- Mauricio Islab. 1988CLChilean association football player
- Isla Elizabeth Phillipsb. 2012GBgranddaughter of Anne, Princess Royal; great-granddaughter of Elizabeth II
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25K | #1,401 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.1K | #329 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.5K | #2,010 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.5K | #2,009 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 740 | #33,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 619 | #36,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 479 | #42,604 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 152 | #11,224 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 91 | #7,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38 | #1,401 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Isla come from?
- Scottish, pronounced ‘ai-la’: 20thcentury coinage, from Islay, name of an island in the Hebrides pronounced thus. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Isla have the most bearers?
- Isla is most frequently recorded in Paraguay, where it is most often spelled isla.
- What does the name Isla mean?
- In Spanish, island (area of land surrounded by water)
What do you want to know about Isla?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/islaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Isla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.