Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: EnglishIsla is a feminine given name traditionally of primarily Scottish usage, derived from "Islay", which is the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is also the name of two Scottish rivers. The root word has no known origin.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Isla yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Isla's data history runs surprisingly deep for a name that reads as a recent trend: first recorded in 1886, just six years into the dataset, though it stayed minor for well over a century before climbing sharply in the 2020s.
5,367 births in 2024 is 151% more than the name had a decade earlier. Its best-ever rank, #33, arrived in 2023 — two years after the raw count itself topped out at 5,540 in 2021.
Only one namesake appears in the enrichment data, actor Isla Fisher, active since the mid-2000s — a thin cultural anchor, similar to Aiden's or Cooper's, for a name whose modern popularity outpaces its documented associations.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1886 | 7 | #938 |
| 1887 | 11 | #713 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,374 |
| 1890 | 10 | #901 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,146 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,355 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,234 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,417 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,245 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,356 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,654 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,028 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,490 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,078 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,179 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,262 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,685 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,310 |
| 1905 | 16 | #947 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,190 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,168 |
| 1908 | 18 | #955 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,531 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,240 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,495 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,386 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,198 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,245 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,594 |
| 1916 | 35 | #1,220 |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,250 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,312 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,407 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,776 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,697 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,216 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,367 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,898 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,719 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,600 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,977 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,614 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,575 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,681 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,773 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,714 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,679 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,493 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,811 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,527 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,132 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,497 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,162 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,833 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,046 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,898 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,350 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,449 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,503 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,248 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,133 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,445 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,406 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,790 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,826 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,268 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,765 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,948 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,997 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,162 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,897 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,834 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,841 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,103 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,775 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,993 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,642 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,872 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,187 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,585 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,271 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,689 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,096 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,749 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,195 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,816 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,007 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,112 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,786 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,878 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,570 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,416 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,752 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,550 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,890 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,321 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,684 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,037 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,979 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,115 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,360 |
| 2008 | 493 | #624 |
| 2009 | 945 | #345 |
| 2010 | 1,099 | #297 |
| 2011 | 1,208 | #268 |
| 2012 | 1,385 | #230 |
| 2013 | 1,912 | #167 |
| 2014 | 2,135 | #151 |
| 2015 | 2,272 | #142 |
| 2016 | 2,521 | #127 |
| 2017 | 2,879 | #103 |
| 2018 | 3,410 | #82 |
| 2019 | 4,043 | #57 |
| 2020 | 4,579 | #44 |
| 2021 | 5,540 | #34 |
| 2022 | 5,284 | #36 |
| 2023 | 5,381 | #33 |
| 2024 | 5,367 | #35 |
