Issa Family History
Issa Name Meaning
Arabic: from a variant of the personal name ʿĪsā Arabic form of Hebrew Yeshua Greek Iēsous (see Jesus ). In Islam ʿĪsā is a prophet ‘messenger of God/Allah and his word’ (Koran 171). In the Koran 19:30 he proclaims ‘He (Allah) has given me the Book and established me as a Prophet.’ This surname is found among both Muslims and Christians in part as an Arabized form of Assyrian/Chaldean variants such as Isho . Compare Essa and Isa Somali: from a variant of the Somali Muslim personal name Isse a cognate of 1 above. Compare Essa . — Note: Since Somalis traditionally do not have hereditary surnames this name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022