Given name & surname · also Polish
Iskra
“spark”
Iskra is a surname from Polish (ultimately Slovene). It is used in English and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Iskra comes from Polish, and ultimately from Slovene.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Iskra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 0 boys · 28 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 234 as a first name in 2020; 548 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Iskra’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Iskra is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Искра.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Iskra
- Iskra LawrenceBritish modelborn 1990
- Iskra MihaylovaBulgarian politicianborn 1957
- Iskra BabichSoviet-Russian film director and screenwriter (1932—2001)1938–2001
- Iskra VelinovaBulgarian rowerborn 1953
- Iskra GrabulovskaMacedonian architect1936–2008
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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