Îssa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Îssa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname. Recorded meaning: A French spelling of an Arabic-derived form for Jesus. From Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or its derivatives (Wolof Isaa, Pulaar Iisaa etc.).
- TZTanzania≈1 in 346(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1K
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 317 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 346 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Issa in US United States, TZ Tanzania, SY Syria and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A French spelling of an Arabic-derived form for Jesus. From Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or its derivatives (Wolof Isaa, Pulaar Iisaa etc.).
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Îssa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #10 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 346 | 19 | Issa | 53 |
| NG Nigeria | #261 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Issa | 60 |
| CM Cameroon | #27 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Issa | 18 |
| SY Syria | #30 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Issa | 52 |
| JO Jordan | #108 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Issa | 98 |
| US United States | — | 4,088 | 1 in 81K | 5.6K | Issa | 317 |
| LB Lebanon | #117 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Issa | 67 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Îssa mean, and where does it come from?
- A French spelling of an Arabic-derived form for Jesus. From Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or its derivatives (Wolof Isaa, Pulaar Iisaa etc.). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Îssa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Îssa in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled issa.
- How common is the name Îssa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,088 people named Îssa in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Îssa compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Îssa is the 10th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AEssaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Îssa” — the 10th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.