Meaning not yet researched.
Isiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 120 in 2025. Its best rank was #268 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #268 in 1894; #1,480 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isiah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,480 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #268.
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Isiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 120 boys in 2025. Peak: #268 in 1894 · most boys in one year: 822 (2001).
In 2025, 120 US boys were named Isiah, making it the 1,480th most common boys’ name of the year, down 171 places from #1,309 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 149 boys named Isiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #268, reached in 1894. The most boys given the name in a single year was 822, in 2001. For comparison, it was #1,090 in 2015 and #698 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isiah in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 20 babies with the name. In all, 24,721 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,047 babies named Isiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,504 US boys were named Isiah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 197. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,234 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isiah ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #806 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Issiah (1,402 babies since 1880), Iziah (1,332 babies since 1880) and Eziah (1,145 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Esiah, Iasia and Isiaha 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: Esiah (422), Iasia (417), Isiaha (352), Izeah (344), Isiaih (187), Iseah (148), Isia (83), Iasiah (75), Isiaah (60), Izeiah (44), Izziah (33), Iziaha (24), 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 Isiah 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 7 | #806 | #694 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #952 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #974 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,150 | #1,139 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,190 | #1,691 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,192 | #1,027 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,360 | #1,026 |
| California | 12 | #1,468 | #1,572 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 120 | #1,480 |
| 2024 | — | — | 149 | #1,309 |
| 2023 | — | — | 132 | #1,397 |
| 2022 | — | — | 141 | #1,332 |
| 2021 | — | — | 138 | #1,343 |
| 2020 | — | — | 131 | #1,357 |
| 2019 | — | — | 157 | #1,214 |
| 2018 | — | — | 169 | #1,139 |
| 2017 | — | — | 170 | #1,127 |
| 2016 | — | — | 197 | #1,020 |
| 2015 | — | — | 179 | #1,090 |
| 2014 | — | — | 187 | #1,060 |
| 2013 | — | — | 266 | #816 |
| 2012 | — | — | 293 | #776 |
| 2011 | — | — | 366 | #639 |
| 2010 | — | — | 424 | #589 |
| 2009 | — | — | 497 | #535 |
| 2008 | — | — | 635 | #443 |
| 2007 | — | — | 627 | #446 |
| 2006 | — | — | 730 | #405 |
| 2005 | — | — | 742 | #387 |
| 2004 | — | — | 712 | #383 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,712 | 734 | #364 |
| 2002 | — | — | 746 | #357 |
| 2001 | — | — | 822 | #336 |
| 2000 | — | — | 797 | #343 |
| 1999 | — | — | 781 | #341 |
| 1998 | — | — | 768 | #348 |
| 1997 | — | — | 741 | #346 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,413 | 658 | #365 |
| 1995 | — | — | 488 | #463 |
| 1994 | — | — | 360 | #540 |
| 1993 | — | — | 323 | #570 |
| 1992 | — | — | 392 | #513 |
| 1991 | — | — | 449 | #467 |
| 1990 | — | — | 511 | #433 |
| 1989 | — | — | 409 | #465 |
| 1988 | — | — | 302 | #526 |
| 1987 | — | — | 205 | #640 |
| 1986 | — | — | 107 | #878 |
| 1985 | — | — | 130 | #779 |
| 1984 | — | — | 120 | #798 |
| 1983 | — | — | 104 | #860 |
| 1982 | — | — | 114 | #831 |
| 1981 | — | — | 98 | #903 |
| 1980 | — | — | 64 | #1,141 |
| 1979 | — | — | 59 | #1,182 |
| 1978 | — | — | 61 | #1,125 |
| 1977 | — | — | 57 | #1,165 |
| 1976 | — | — | 57 | #1,132 |
| 1975 | — | — | 59 | #1,095 |
| 1974 | — | — | 51 | #1,159 |
| 1973 | — | — | 53 | #1,131 |
| 1972 | — | — | 52 | #1,132 |
| 1971 | — | — | 47 | #1,206 |
| 1970 | — | — | 45 | #1,244 |
| 1969 | — | — | 56 | #1,034 |
| 1968 | — | — | 64 | #904 |
| 1967 | — | — | 77 | #820 |
| 1966 | — | — | 70 | #872 |
| 1965 | — | — | 52 | #1,026 |
| 1964 | — | — | 90 | #793 |
| 1963 | — | — | 65 | #933 |
| 1962 | — | — | 72 | #898 |
| 1961 | — | — | 77 | #870 |
| 1960 | — | — | 64 | #947 |
| 1959 | — | — | 101 | #757 |
| 1958 | — | — | 105 | #728 |
| 1957 | — | — | 100 | #753 |
| 1956 | — | — | 87 | #800 |
| 1955 | — | — | 109 | #701 |
| 1954 | — | — | 100 | #724 |
| 1953 | — | — | 99 | #718 |
| 1952 | — | — | 109 | #665 |
| 1951 | — | — | 102 | #694 |
| 1950 | — | — | 97 | #698 |
| 1949 | — | — | 114 | #640 |
| 1948 | — | — | 125 | #609 |
| 1947 | — | — | 113 | #649 |
| 1946 | — | — | 117 | #596 |
| 1945 | — | — | 84 | #659 |
| 1944 | — | — | 118 | #561 |
| 1943 | — | — | 105 | #615 |
| 1942 | — | — | 98 | #642 |
| 1941 | — | — | 99 | #599 |
| 1940 | — | — | 83 | #668 |
| 1939 | — | — | 102 | #568 |
| 1938 | — | — | 95 | #610 |
| 1937 | — | — | 85 | #644 |
| 1936 | — | — | 100 | #579 |
| 1935 | — | — | 88 | #627 |
| 1934 | — | — | 79 | #687 |
| 1933 | — | — | 96 | #595 |
| 1932 | — | — | 108 | #572 |
| 1931 | — | — | 108 | #566 |
| 1930 | — | — | 103 | #602 |
| 1929 | — | — | 123 | #525 |
| 1928 | — | — | 121 | #556 |
| 1927 | — | — | 110 | #591 |
| 1926 | — | — | 130 | #536 |
| 1925 | — | — | 129 | #541 |
| 1924 | — | — | 138 | #541 |
| 1923 | — | — | 140 | #514 |
| 1922 | — | — | 138 | #534 |
| 1921 | — | — | 118 | #584 |
| 1920 | — | — | 123 | #555 |
| 1919 | — | — | 145 | #495 |
| 1918 | — | — | 130 | #532 |
| 1917 | — | — | 98 | #600 |
| 1916 | — | — | 81 | #654 |
| 1915 | — | — | 96 | #581 |
| 1914 | — | — | 101 | #483 |
| 1913 | — | — | 56 | #588 |
| 1912 | — | — | 79 | #441 |
| 1911 | — | — | 52 | #398 |
| 1910 | — | — | 56 | #330 |
| 1909 | — | — | 48 | #337 |
| 1908 | — | — | 39 | #370 |
| 1907 | — | — | 39 | #355 |
| 1906 | — | — | 29 | #403 |
| 1905 | — | — | 35 | #349 |
| 1904 | — | — | 28 | #397 |
| 1903 | — | — | 31 | #348 |
| 1902 | — | — | 28 | #375 |
| 1901 | — | — | 19 | #445 |
| 1900 | — | — | 44 | #321 |
| 1899 | — | — | 21 | #408 |
| 1898 | — | — | 29 | #361 |
| 1897 | — | — | 27 | #363 |
| 1896 | — | — | 31 | #345 |
| 1895 | — | — | 35 | #305 |
| 1894 | — | — | 43 | #268 |
| 1893 | — | — | 31 | #314 |
| 1892 | — | — | 37 | #307 |
| 1891 | — | — | 27 | #329 |
| 1890 | — | — | 32 | #306 |
| 1889 | — | — | 16 | #474 |
| 1888 | — | — | 35 | #305 |
| 1887 | — | — | 32 | #295 |
| 1886 | — | — | 22 | #374 |
| 1885 | — | — | 26 | #335 |
| 1884 | — | — | 24 | #365 |
| 1883 | — | — | 24 | #343 |
| 1882 | — | — | 28 | #325 |
| 1881 | — | — | 24 | #338 |
| 1880 | — | — | 20 | #385 |
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).