Isom

Where Isom comes from

The dictionaries list Isom as a given name — a male given name; rare in English — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among boys — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #336
    27 babies named Isom — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #554.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name; rare in English.
Namesakes

No widely known Isom turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.