Isla
From the Scottish island of Islay, so the name carries the plain sense of "island". Fewer than a hundred women in Poland use it, which makes meeting one something you remember.
Isla Pronunciation
Isla is pronounced EES-lah (/ˈisla/).
What Isla means
Where Isla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Isla began as a place. It takes its Celtic name from Islay, an island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. The River Isla in Perthshire carries the same sound. When people say the name means "island," they are reading it back through that Scottish geography, and the reading fits.
The name spread through English usage more than any other, and by the 2010s it ranked among the most popular girls' names in Scotland and England. It arrived without diminutives or variants trailing behind it. Short already.
In a Polish class register the name would sit oddly among the Zuzannas and Zofias, foreign in shape but easy to say. There is no Polish name-day for Isla, so a girl carrying it here borrows one or goes without. The Polish gloss is plain: wyspa.
How many people are named Isla
1 in 232411 women in Poland is named Isla. 97 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3523 among female names.
Isla's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1256 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Isla is most popular
Isla is most popular in Pomeranian, 1367% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Pomeranian2 girls born+1367%
Isla as a middle name
Isla is a first name for 97 women in Poland and a middle name for another 43, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1047th, between Esperanza (43) and Lorraine (43).
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#1045 Daiana43
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#1046 Esperanza43
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#1047 Isla43
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#1048 Lorraine43
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#1049 Lou43