Meaning not yet researched.
Isai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 186 in 2025. Its best rank was #701 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #701 in 2007; #1,139 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Isai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,139 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #701.
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Isai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 186 boys in 2025. Peak: #701 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 333 (2007).
In 2025, 186 US boys were named Isai, making it the 1,139th most common boys’ name of the year, down 76 places from #1,063 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 205 boys named Isai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #701, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 333. For comparison, it was #1,031 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isai in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 6 babies. In all, 7,385 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,633 babies named Isai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,859 US boys were named Isai; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 207. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isai ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #726 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isaiah (254,710 babies since 1880), Isa (6,575 babies since 1880), Issa (3,217 babies since 1880) and Esau (2,976 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Iza, Eisa and Isao are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Iza (480), Eisa (463), Isao (246), Isahi (177), Issai (91), Isay (84), Ezai (39), Ysa (27), Esaie (17), Isau (15), Issay (5), Iesa (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Isai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 6 | #726 | — |
| California | 30 | #820 | #712 |
| Washington | 7 | #840 | — |
| Texas | 31 | #848 | #666 |
| Arizona | 6 | #880 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #967 | #800 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,030 | #865 |
| New York | 11 | #1,077 | #1,287 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,165 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,191 | #1,240 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,395 | #852 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,099 | 186 | #1,139 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,678 | 205 | #1,063 |
| 2023 | — | — | 199 | #1,081 |
| 2022 | — | — | 160 | #1,232 |
| 2021 | — | — | 168 | #1,175 |
| 2020 | — | — | 161 | #1,194 |
| 2019 | — | — | 207 | #1,011 |
| 2018 | — | — | 193 | #1,054 |
| 2017 | — | — | 195 | #1,031 |
| 2016 | — | — | 185 | #1,066 |
| 2015 | — | — | 197 | #1,031 |
| 2014 | — | — | 168 | #1,133 |
| 2013 | — | — | 191 | #1,026 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,884 | 212 | #953 |
| 2011 | — | — | 237 | #881 |
| 2010 | — | — | 241 | #872 |
| 2009 | — | — | 270 | #819 |
| 2008 | — | — | 310 | #738 |
| 2007 | — | — | 333 | #701 |
| 2006 | — | — | 305 | #713 |
| 2005 | — | — | 274 | #738 |
| 2004 | — | — | 275 | #702 |
| 2003 | — | — | 243 | #742 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,430 | 245 | #725 |
| 2001 | — | — | 206 | #812 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,816 | 161 | #944 |
| 1999 | — | — | 179 | #847 |
| 1998 | — | — | 144 | #963 |
| 1997 | — | — | 141 | #954 |
| 1996 | — | — | 149 | #897 |
| 1995 | — | — | 128 | #982 |
| 1994 | — | — | 114 | #1,044 |
| 1993 | — | — | 93 | #1,160 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,327 | 82 | #1,253 |
| 1991 | — | — | 90 | #1,165 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,795 | 87 | #1,167 |
| 1989 | — | — | 83 | #1,163 |
| 1988 | — | — | 46 | #1,583 |
| 1987 | — | — | 31 | #1,991 |
| 1986 | — | — | 36 | #1,743 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,709 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #2,003 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,876 |
| 1982 | — | — | 21 | #2,371 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,012 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,880 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,827 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,741 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,411 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,619 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,062 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,747 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,699 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).