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Girl

Isla

Isla is a girl's name meaning "Scottish river name", drawing on Scottish roots. It is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2010s. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

ScottishScottish river name
SpanishAlso Spanish "isla" – "island"
Births by decade
1900s
112
1910s
244
1920s
269
1930s
182
1940s
95
1950s
33
1960s
20
1970s
26
1980s
55
1990s
142
2000s
1,925
2010s
15,382
Peaked in the 2010s · 18,485 total U.S. births since 1900