The Isola surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,052 people carried this name — #23,978 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 277,800 people counted. That is up 5% from 1,006 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Isola surname
From isola (“island”), a topographic surname for someone who lived on an island.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Isola» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,237 people named Isola live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 123 people named Isola.
32 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Corsica.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
508 people named Isola are counted in Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Isola,
with a public archive behind them.
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Aristo Isola 1850–1919 · politician -
Francesco Isola 1850–1926 · Catholic priest -
Émile Isola 1860–1945 · magician -
Ferdinando Isola d. 1867 · lawyer
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Gaetano Isola 1754–1813 · composer
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Pietro Isola 1785–1873 · poet
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Isola.
- Isler 2,280 · U.S. census
- Ismael 1,012 · U.S. census
- Ismail 6,126 · U.S. census
- Ismaili 458 · U.S. census
- Ismert 191 · U.S. census
- Isner 806 · U.S. census
- Israel 10,245 · U.S. census
- Issa 4,088 · U.S. census
- Issler 285 · U.S. census
- Istre 1,841 · U.S. census
- Italiano 1,150 · U.S. census
- Ithier 232 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Isola is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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