Meaning not yet researched.
Island: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 67 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,593 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 80% of babies named Island in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,593 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Island: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 67 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,593 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 68 (2024).
In 2025, 67 US girls were named Island, making it the 2,593rd most common girls’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 68 girls named Island in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,593, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 68, in 2024. For comparison, it was #6,324 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Island, making it the 5,480th most common boys’ name of the year, down 859 places from #4,621 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 22 boys named Island in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,621, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 22. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Island in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 5 babies. In all, 807 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 448 babies named Island.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 490 US girls were named Island; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,989 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Island ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,271 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Isla (58,271 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Islynd 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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Islynd (6).
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 Island 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,271 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,299 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,486 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,552 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,220 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,749 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,915 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,593 | 17 | #5,480 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,593 | 22 | #4,621 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,772 | 19 | #5,137 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,733 | 13 | #6,619 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,764 | 9 | #8,434 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,833 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,414 | 8 | #9,208 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,238 | 5 | #13,036 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,324 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,445 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,342 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,978 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,838 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,664 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,089 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,539 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,201 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,837 | 6 | #11,180 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,415 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,901 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,956 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,274 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,207 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,717 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,030 | — | — |
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).