Israa
Feminine · “a night journey”
Israa is a journey by night. The seventeenth sura of the Qur'an is named for it: the account of the Prophet being taken from Mecca to Jerusalem in a single night and from there through the heavens. The word means exactly that, a traveling by night, and it is one of the most-told stories in Islam.
How old is the name Israa?
Israa first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Israa alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 700 people named Israa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Israa most popular?
Israa peaked in 2017, reaching #3697 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, 1,402 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From isra to Israa
The story of Israa
The Night Journey is described briefly in the Qur'an and at length in the traditions, and it is the reason Jerusalem is the third holiest city in Islam: the journey ends at the furthest mosque, which came to be identified with the site on the Temple Mount. The word is given as a name across the Arabic-speaking world, and the doubled a in this spelling marks a long vowel and a glottal stop that English cannot otherwise write.
Meaning
a night journey
Arabic isra, from a root meaning to travel by night. The word names the first half of the Prophet's night journey, the part from Mecca to Jerusalem; the ascent that follows is the miraj.
How the name formed
- isra
- Israa
Related forms: إسراء · İsra · Isra
Pronouncing Israa
iss-RAH
Two syllables with the stress at the end, the last held long. The doubled a marks a length and a catch in the throat that English does not have a letter for.
Nicknames for Israa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 201741 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3697reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- −13.8%25 in 2025, from 29
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Israa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- إسراء in Arabic — transliteration
- İsra in Turkish — same name
- Isra in Indonesian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Michigan.
Israas among us
people named Israa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Israa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Israa
- #5099
- Israa on the 2025 chart
- #788
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Israa went to 25 girls in 2025, but Isra is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 172, which makes it the 788th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,311 places above the chart.
- Isra147
- Israa25
About 1 girl in 9,345 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 64,291 for Israa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jacqulynn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Israa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacqulynn climbed just as high around 1957, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacqulynn's path sketches the road Israa is walking now.
Israa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Israa is headed
Israa should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Israa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Israa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a specific event with an enormous documented tradition behind it.
- Both syllables exist in English, so the name survives transliteration.
- It is instantly recognized anywhere Muslims live.
- Isra and Israa are both used, so records within a family may differ.
- English readers may treat the doubled a as a typing error.
- It is close in spelling to Israel, which is a different word entirely and causes confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Israas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Israa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Israa?
- Israa is one of 2 recorded spellings. Isra is the more common one — 147 births in 2025 against 25 for Israa.
- How popular is the name Israa in 2025?
- Israa ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Israa?
- About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Israa — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Israa with classmates?
- Israa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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