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How popular is the name Isla?
Births per year, rank history and how many Islas are alive today.
Isla is one of the ten most popular girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 4th in 2025 with 1,959 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2014, when 4,012 babies were given the name, the 3rd most popular that year. It has declined since 2014; the 2025 figure is roughly 49% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 53,000 babies have been named Isla in England and Wales since 1996. Isla is one spelling of a name also recorded as Iyla; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Isla you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Islas born in England and Wales are between 6 and 14, and there are at least 56,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 16% chance that at least one of them will be called Isla.
How many babies are named Isla each year?
Includes all spellings: Isla, Iyla. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Isla spelling rank?
Where does the Iyla spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Isla most popular?
Isla peaked in 2014, when 4,158 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Isla?
At least 56,000 people named Isla in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Isla?
Most living Islas are between 6 and 14; the most common age is about 13.
Is Isla becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2014 peak.