Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Isaías
“Yahweh is salvation”
Isaías is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Spanish and Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Isaías goes back to Latin Isaias, meaning “Yahweh is salvation.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Isaías comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Isaías developed from Ἠσαΐας.
Isaías’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Isaías developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἠσαΐας. In Spanish usage, Isaías has a conventional equivalent in the English form Isaiah. In Spanish usage, Isaías has a conventional equivalent in Isaias.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Isaías has relatives in 39 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
24 related names in 39 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- IsaiahEnglish, Scottish Gaelic
- Isaiasio, Basque
- EsaiasNorwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål
- IsaiaItalian, Romanian
- Yeshayahuequivalent
- IsayaSwahili
- Isajequivalent
- ישעיהוequivalent
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People named Isaías
- Isaías Medina AngaritaPresident of Venezuela (1897-1953)
- Isaías de NoronhaPresident of Brazil (1874-1963)
- Isaías SánchezSpanish footballerborn 1987
- Isaías SamakuvaLeader of União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angolaborn 1946
- Isaías PimentelVenezuelan tennis player (1933-2017)
- Isaías CarrascoSpanish politician (1966-2008)
- Isaías Guardiolahandball playerborn 1984
- Isaías Duarte CancinoColombian archbishop (1939-2002)
- IsaíasBrazilian footballerborn 1963
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