Isiah
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784 · #1,477 for boys in 2025, 120 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1894 · 43 births
- Debut · boys
- 20 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 24,710since 1880
Isiah over time
Rank among boys' names. Isiah has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,477 | 120 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,308 | 149 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,397 | 132 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,330 | 141 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,339 | 138 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,353 | 131 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,214 | 157 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,139 | 169 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,126 | 170 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,020 | 197 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,089 | 179 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,057 | 187 | |
| 2013 | — | #816 | 266 | |
| 2012 | — | #776 | 293 | |
| 2011 | — | #639 | 366 | |
| 2010 | — | #589 | 424 | |
| 2009 | — | #535 | 497 | |
| 2008 | — | #443 | 635 | |
| 2007 | — | #446 | 627 | |
| 2006 | — | #405 | 730 | |
| 2005 | — | #387 | 742 | |
| 2004 | — | #383 | 712 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #364 | 734 |
| 2002 | — | #357 | 746 | |
| 2001 | — | #336 | 822 | |
| 2000 | — | #343 | 797 | |
| 1999 | — | #341 | 781 | |
| 1998 | — | #348 | 768 | |
| 1997 | — | #345 | 741 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #365 | 658 |
| 1995 | — | #463 | 488 | |
| 1994 | — | #539 | 360 | |
| 1993 | — | #570 | 323 | |
| 1992 | — | #512 | 392 | |
| 1991 | — | #467 | 449 | |
| 1990 | — | #433 | 511 | |
| 1989 | — | #465 | 409 | |
| 1988 | — | #526 | 302 | |
| 1987 | — | #640 | 205 | |
| 1986 | — | #877 | 107 | |
| 1985 | — | #777 | 130 | |
| 1984 | — | #796 | 120 | |
| 1983 | — | #858 | 104 | |
| 1982 | — | #831 | 114 | |
| 1981 | — | #900 | 98 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,133 | 64 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,177 | 59 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,121 | 61 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,158 | 57 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,123 | 57 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,094 | 59 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,151 | 51 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,123 | 53 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,129 | 52 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,199 | 47 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,238 | 45 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,027 | 56 | |
| 1968 | — | #898 | 64 | |
| 1967 | — | #818 | 77 | |
| 1966 | — | #870 | 70 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,020 | 52 | |
| 1964 | — | #792 | 90 | |
| 1963 | — | #929 | 65 | |
| 1962 | — | #896 | 72 | |
| 1961 | — | #870 | 77 | |
| 1960 | — | #944 | 64 | |
| 1959 | — | #756 | 101 | |
| 1958 | — | #728 | 105 | |
| 1957 | — | #750 | 100 | |
| 1956 | — | #796 | 87 | |
| 1955 | — | #700 | 109 | |
| 1954 | — | #722 | 100 | |
| 1953 | — | #717 | 99 | |
| 1952 | — | #660 | 109 | |
| 1951 | — | #693 | 102 | |
| 1950 | — | #695 | 97 | |
| 1949 | — | #640 | 114 | |
| 1948 | — | #608 | 125 | |
| 1947 | — | #647 | 113 | |
| 1946 | — | #592 | 117 | |
| 1945 | — | #657 | 84 | |
| 1944 | — | #559 | 118 | |
| 1943 | — | #615 | 105 | |
| 1942 | — | #642 | 98 | |
| 1941 | — | #597 | 99 | |
| 1940 | — | #667 | 83 | |
| 1939 | — | #565 | 102 | |
| 1938 | — | #609 | 95 | |
| 1937 | — | #637 | 85 | |
| 1936 | — | #577 | 100 | |
| 1935 | — | #627 | 88 | |
| 1934 | — | #682 | 79 | |
| 1933 | — | #591 | 96 | |
| 1932 | — | #570 | 108 | |
| 1931 | — | #565 | 108 | |
| 1930 | — | #599 | 103 | |
| 1929 | — | #524 | 123 | |
| 1928 | — | #554 | 121 | |
| 1927 | — | #591 | 110 | |
| 1926 | — | #533 | 130 | |
| 1925 | — | #539 | 129 | |
| 1924 | — | #538 | 138 | |
| 1923 | — | #513 | 140 | |
| 1922 | — | #534 | 138 | |
| 1921 | — | #583 | 118 | |
| 1920 | — | #551 | 123 | |
| 1919 | — | #494 | 145 | |
| 1918 | — | #532 | 130 | |
| 1917 | — | #599 | 98 | |
| 1916 | — | #650 | 81 | |
| 1915 | — | #580 | 96 | |
| 1914 | — | #483 | 101 | |
| 1913 | — | #586 | 56 | |
| 1912 | — | #439 | 79 | |
| 1911 | — | #395 | 52 | |
| 1910 | — | #329 | 56 | |
| 1909 | — | #334 | 48 | |
| 1908 | — | #365 | 39 | |
| 1907 | — | #351 | 39 | |
| 1906 | — | #400 | 29 | |
| 1905 | — | #346 | 35 | |
| 1904 | — | #390 | 28 | |
| 1903 | — | #346 | 31 | |
| 1902 | — | #373 | 28 | |
| 1901 | — | #433 | 19 | |
| 1900 | — | #319 | 44 | |
| 1899 | — | #402 | 21 | |
| 1898 | — | #360 | 29 | |
| 1897 | — | #360 | 27 | |
| 1896 | — | #338 | 31 | |
| 1895 | — | #305 | 35 | |
| 1894 | — | #268 | 43 | |
| 1893 | — | #312 | 31 | |
| 1892 | — | #303 | 37 | |
| 1891 | — | #325 | 27 | |
| 1890 | — | #302 | 32 | |
| 1889 | — | #464 | 16 | |
| 1888 | — | #302 | 35 | |
| 1887 | — | #294 | 32 | |
| 1886 | — | #369 | 22 | |
| 1885 | — | #332 | 26 | |
| 1884 | — | #360 | 24 | |
| 1883 | — | #337 | 24 | |
| 1882 | — | #324 | 28 | |
| 1881 | — | #332 | 24 | |
| 1880 | — | #381 | 20 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Isiah was already there! It came in at #381, and was given to 20 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1889, when fewer than 17 boys a year got the name.
See more about Isiah
- 169 spots since 2024 (#1,308 → #1,477)
- 124 spots since 2020 (#1,353 → #1,477)
- 388 spots since 2015 (#1,089 → #1,477)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 1987 (#877 → #640)
- Biggest drop: 241 spots in 2014 (#816 → #1,057)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1894 at #268 (43 births)
- Births halved by 1899, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 121 yrs · run 1880–1964
- Highest: 1 in 2,364 boys born in 2001 were named Isiah (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,234 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #268 in 1894, was only 1 in 2,692 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.5% of all boys named Isiah (7,042) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 251 | #294 (1887) | #350 |
| 1890s | 313 | #268 (1894) | #328 |
| 1900s | 340 | #319 (1900) | #366 |
| 1910s | 894 | #329 (1910) | #509 |
| 1920s | 1,270 | #513 (1923) | #546 |
| 1930s | 964 | #565 (1931) | #602 |
| 1940s | 1,056 | #559 (1944) | #622 |
| 1950s | 1,009 | #660 (1952) | #722 |
| 1960s | 687 | #792 (1964) | #906 |
| 1970s | 541 | #1,094 (1975) | #1,151 |
| 1980s | 1,653 | #465 (1989) | #780 |
| 1990s | 5,471 | #341 (1999) | #438 |
| 2000s | 7,042 | #336 (2001) | #400 |
| 2010s | 2,408 | #589 (2010) | #947 |
| 2020s | 811 | #1,308 (2024) | #1,367 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Isiah in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 365,429 of them was named Isiah, which outranked 14.4% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,655 names at #15,784; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 2,691 of them was named Isiah, which outranked 97.1% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.