In 2025, 42 US boys were named Yeshaya, making it the 2,988th most common boys’ name of the year, down 77 places from #2,911 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 44 boys named Yeshaya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,911, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 44. For comparison, it was #4,401 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yeshaya in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 856 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 287 babies named Yeshaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 340 US boys were named Yeshaya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yeshaya ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #467 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.