Isä

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Isä is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Isabel, Isabella and Isabelle.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 13K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 65K
  • ALAlbania1 in 2.6K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

16,651 people, 2022

Sources
222 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Isa in BR Brazil, US United States, PT Portugal.

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)

From Isabel, Isabella and Isabelle.

Sources 9

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Isä 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.

Where Isä is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—16,6511 in 13K17KIsa147
US United States—5,1451 in 65K2.8KIsa222
SE Sweden—3,7591 in 2.7K3.8K—12
AL Albania—1,1791 in 2.6K1.2K——
FI Finland—9891 in 5.6K1.1K—11
DK Denmark—7091 in 8.3K387—1
NO Norway—6701 in 8.2K1.3K—11
PT Portugal#250——listedIsa80

16,651 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Isä is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name46 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Isa, Isae, Işa, Îsa, Is-A

  • Bangla given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Bangladesh

    Languages: Bangla, Odia

    Also written Isha, Isa, ঈশা, ইসা, ঈসা

  • Turkish given name83 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Syria, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Turkish, Russian, Arabic

    Also written Isa, Иса, Іса, Исах, Issa

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Isä 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 Finnish, father (male parent; male who has sired a baby, that man relative to his children)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In izh, father

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nfl, mother

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Isä under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Isä mean, and where does it come from?
From Isabel, Isabella and Isabelle. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
Is Isä a male or female name?
Isä is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Isä have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Isä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isa.
Where is Isä most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Isä is densest in Albania — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Isä?
In Brazil, the national register counted 16,651 people named Isä in 2022, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
How common is Isä compared with other names?
In Portugal, Isä is the 250th most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.

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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, “Isä” — the 250th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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