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Yishai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,579 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Yishai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,579 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yishai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,579 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 32 (2025).
In 2025, 32 US boys were named Yishai, making it the 3,579th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,603 places from #6,182 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 15 boys named Yishai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,579, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #5,285 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yishai in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 445 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 144 babies named Yishai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 200 US boys were named Yishai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 32 | #3,579 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #6,182 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,338 |
| 2022 | — | — | 23 | #4,563 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,933 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,419 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,758 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,602 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #7,084 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #6,044 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,285 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #10,676 |
| 2013 | — | — | 14 | #6,231 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,291 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,990 |
| 2010 | — | — | 17 | #5,471 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #5,094 |
| 2008 | — | — | 19 | #5,058 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,427 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,898 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,209 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,519 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,704 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,516 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,919 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,906 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,882 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,456 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #9,240 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #10,508 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,468 |
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).