How Many People Are Named Isha?

5,084

people named Isha are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 67,227 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,151 babies named Isha in Social Security records from 1960 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,681

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,066

See the top 100

Peak Year

2023

209 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Hinduism
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Means "master, lord" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the feminine form เคˆเคถเคพ and the masculine form เคˆเคถ (an epithet of the Hindu god Shiva). It is also the name of one of the Upanishads, which are parts of Hindu scripture.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Isha in the records were girls.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Isha alive today is about 18 years old, and 83% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 24 in 2025.

Under 30 4,213
82.9%
30 to 59 860
16.9%
60 and over 10
0.2%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Isha first appears in the records in 1960 and was given most often in 2023, to 209 babies. In 2025, 176 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1960 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Isha has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,084, in 2002. In 2025 it ranked #1,276.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,276
Best rank#1,084 (2002)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,375 in the 2000s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Isha alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Isha were born in California than in any other state: about 812 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Isha was given 4.6 times as often in New Jersey, 1.9 times in New York and 1.8 times in California.

California 812
Texas 424
New Jersey 396
New York 375
Illinois 182
Virginia 137
Ohio 130
Georgia 125
Florida 95
North Carolina 91
Pennsylvania 89
Washington 89
Massachusetts 66
Michigan 63
Maryland 50
Connecticut 29
Arizona 18
Wisconsin 11
Colorado 10
Oregon 5
Missouri 5

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