Meaning not yet researched.
Isis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 128 in 2025. Its best rank was #522 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #522 in 2005; #1,625 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,625 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #522.
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Isis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 128 girls in 2025. Peak: #522 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 561 (2005).
In 2025, 128 US girls were named Isis, making it the 1,625th most common girls’ name of the year, down 545 places from #1,080 in 2024. That is 102 fewer than the 230 girls named Isis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #522, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 561. For comparison, it was #1,784 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isis in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 5 babies. In all, 11,893 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,070 babies named Isis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,033 US girls were named Isis; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 230. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,557 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Isis ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #652 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isaias (18,644 babies since 1880) and Isyss (599 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Isys, Iysis and Icis 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Isys (330), Iysis (305), Icis (183), Iceis (71), Issys (42), Ices (26), Iciss (13), Iyssis (11), Ises (5), Iysiss (5).
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 Isis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #652 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #786 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,071 | #1,349 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,082 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,496 | #1,748 |
| California | 15 | #1,525 | #1,361 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,551 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,599 | #1,547 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,741 | #1,498 |
| New York | 5 | #2,219 | #1,845 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 128 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2024 | 230 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 2015 | 117 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2014 | 401 | #704 | — | — |
| 2013 | 501 | #575 | — | — |
| 2012 | 467 | #615 | — | — |
| 2011 | 450 | #633 | — | — |
| 2010 | 471 | #625 | — | — |
| 2009 | 495 | #610 | — | — |
| 2008 | 504 | #607 | — | — |
| 2007 | 553 | #553 | — | — |
| 2006 | 519 | #567 | 6 | #11,179 |
| 2005 | 561 | #522 | — | — |
| 2004 | 532 | #535 | — | — |
| 2003 | 467 | #588 | — | — |
| 2002 | 472 | #562 | — | — |
| 2001 | 485 | #545 | 6 | #9,738 |
| 2000 | 470 | #556 | — | — |
| 1999 | 414 | #594 | — | — |
| 1998 | 376 | #625 | — | — |
| 1997 | 303 | #710 | — | — |
| 1996 | 218 | #902 | — | — |
| 1995 | 201 | #941 | — | — |
| 1994 | 187 | #991 | — | — |
| 1993 | 182 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1992 | 132 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1991 | 150 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1989 | 85 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1977 | 87 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1976 | 124 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,157 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,290 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,140 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,144 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,728 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,798 | — | — |
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).