Meaning not yet researched.
Islah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,478 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,478 in 2020; #3,009 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Islah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,009 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,478.
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Islah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,478 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 70 (2020).
In 2025, 55 US girls were named Islah, making it the 3,009th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,144 places from #4,153 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 35 girls named Islah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,478, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #12,275 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Islah in 13 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 601 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 340 babies named Islah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 577 US girls were named Islah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Isla (58,271 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Islah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).