The ISSA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,576	11265	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	-1	116513	0	0
Change since 1880	+2577	+105248	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	616	2622	0.004	38
United Kingdom	361	11223	0.001	8

Top States for ISSA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	377	6987	0.001	11
Texas	261	7006	0.001	13
Michigan	214	5426	0.002	22
Florida	197	9084	0.001	12
New Jersey	172	5467	0.002	20
Top States for ISSA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	48	3203	0.005	46
Michigan	214	5426	0.002	22
New Jersey	172	5467	0.002	20
Minnesota	70	10678	0.001	14
Massachusetts	88	8678	0.001	14

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ISSA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ISSA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ISSA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ISSA by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ISSA

Region of origin: Africa

Country of origin: Somalia

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of ISSA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	431	16.73
Black/African American	187	7.26
White (Hispanic)	160	6.21
White (Caucasian)	1,667	64.71
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ISSA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ISSA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ISSA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.