Entry № 11780 · Hebrew origin

Yiska Yiska — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YIS-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Biblical Iscah (Sarah midrash)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "biblical iscah (sarah midrash)".

Yiska is from the Hebrew Yiskāh.

Biblical Iscah (Sarah midrash) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

יִסְכָּה
Transliteration
Yiskāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɪs.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yiska stands.

Yiska does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yiskas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Iscah / Sarah midrash
Biblical Iscah Genesis 11:29 + daughter of Haran + niece of Abraham + sister of Lot + Jewish midrash identifies Iscah with Sarah matriarch + Talmud Sanhedrin 69b
Hebrew Bible + Talmud

Names connected to Yiska.

The number behind Yiska.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yiska reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.