Isra

#77 in Oregon

Meaning of Isra

Isra, she is told, was born amid satin darkness, for her Arabic roots whisper “night journey,” the very voyage the Prophet is said to have taken beneath a moon the color of warm milk, and the name drifts across languages as gracefully as a gondola gliding down a sleepy Venetian canal, its soft is-rah slipping off the tongue like melted chocolate. In her syllables, parents hear a promise of adventure lit by starlight—an invitation to pack curiosity and wonder into a tiny suitcase and set off, at least in the imagination, toward horizons where minarets and marble palazzos share the same silver glow. Though Isra still flutters shyly around the lower ranks of American birth charts, she rises each year with the quiet persistence of a firefly in June, offering families a choice that feels both rare and reassuringly simple to spell. Even her brevity is playful: four letters, yet as expansive as the night sky; a petite espresso cup whose fragrance fills the whole piazza. And so, for those who wish their daughter’s very name to carry the hush of twilight and the thrill of possibility, Isra arrives like a gently sung lullaby, equal parts crescent moon, ancient story, and tomorrow’s open road.

Pronunciation

Arabic

  • Pronunced as is-rah (/ˈɪsrɑː/)

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