Meaning not yet researched.
Issiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,461 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,461 in 1998; #7,367 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Issiah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,367 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,461.
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Issiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,461 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 77 (2005).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Issiah, making it the 7,367th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,934 places from #10,301 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 7 boys named Issiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,461, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 77, in 2005. For comparison, it was #7,706 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Issiah in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 1,402 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 656 babies named Issiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 93 US boys were named Issiah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Isiah (24,721 babies since 1880) and Iziah (1,332 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Issiah 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,367 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,301 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,246 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,320 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #12,871 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,334 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,464 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,428 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,174 |
| 2016 | — | — | 11 | #7,331 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,706 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,838 |
| 2013 | — | — | 30 | #3,531 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,477 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,824 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,039 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,498 |
| 2008 | — | — | 55 | #2,356 |
| 2007 | — | — | 62 | #2,172 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,022 |
| 2005 | — | — | 77 | #1,730 |
| 2004 | — | — | 67 | #1,844 |
| 2003 | — | — | 70 | #1,740 |
| 2002 | — | — | 73 | #1,640 |
| 2001 | — | — | 62 | #1,805 |
| 2000 | — | — | 73 | #1,617 |
| 1999 | — | — | 71 | #1,563 |
| 1998 | — | — | 77 | #1,461 |
| 1997 | — | — | 53 | #1,801 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,088 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,316 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,161 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,824 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,205 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,256 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,369 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,941 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,745 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,730 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,392 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,732 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,288 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,448 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,979 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,210 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,825 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,205 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,312 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,079 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,077 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,949 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,651 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,766 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,480 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,564 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,198 |
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).