Yishai

#3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births

Peak · boys
2025 · 32 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
445
since 1990

Yishai over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Yishai has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201990boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#3,51332
2024#5,90415
2023#4,22025
2022#4,44223
2021#4,78020
2020#4,27523
2019#6,40613
2018#4,47622
2017#6,68512
2016#5,78915
2015#5,05818
2014#9,6427
2013#5,92314
2012#6,00114
2011#6,57812
2010#5,25117
2009#4,92219
2008#4,90119
2007#5,21017
2006#6,46012
2005#5,87513
2004#6,97610
2003#6,25811
2002#6,08811
2001#6,44510
2000#5,58812
1999#8,7046
1998#7,5607
1997#8,1106
1996#9,0155
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First appearance
1990

The first year at least five boys were named Yishai! It came in at #8,117, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Yishai
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2,391 spots since 2024 (#5,904#3,513)
  • 762 spots since 2020 (#4,275#3,513)
  • 1,545 spots since 2015 (#5,058#3,513)
Rise & fade · boys
35 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1990
  • Peaked 2025 at #3,513 (32 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 53,377
  • Highest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 were named Yishai (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 32.4% of all boys named Yishai (144) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s29#7,560 (1998)#8,301
2000s134#4,901 (2008)#5,872
2010s144#4,476 (2018)#6,181
2020s138#3,513 (2025)#4,522

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.

Yishai in 1990

boys
#8,117
5 births · 1 in 410,808 boys

Top boys' names in 1990

  1. #1Michael65,321
  2. #2Christopher52,362
  3. #3Matthew44,826
  4. #4Joshua43,237
  5. #5Daniel33,830
  6. #6David33,748
  7. #7Andrew33,673
  8. #8James32,359
  9. #9Justin30,649
  10. #10Joseph30,137
  11. #8,117Yishai5
More about 1990

boys

2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 410,808 of them was named Yishai, which outranked 14.5% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yishai
  1. #7,178Zia6
  2. #7,178Zoltan6
  3. #7,178Zubair6
  4. #8,117Yishai5
  5. #8,117Aamer5
  6. #8,117Aasin5
  7. #8,117Abdelrahman5

Tied with 1,376 names at #8,117; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1989
Risers
  1. 3,636Tevin#4,017#381
  2. 3,283Keenen#4,271#988
  3. 1,325Male#2,027#702
  4. 1,032Denzel#1,476#444
  5. 598Kevon#1,476#878
Fallers
  1. 1,130Kiara#956#2,086
  2. 916Rachel#993#1,909
  3. 855Nicole#985#1,840
  4. 746Tiffany#956#1,702
  5. 681Sarah#819#1,500

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1990