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Isai

Isai reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 700, and has been recorded 7,385 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,138th. About 7,300 Isais are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Isai boys named Isai

By the numbers

Total US births
7,385
Estimated living today
7,300
Median age today
17
Peak year
2007
Best rank
700th
Rank in 2025
1,138th
First recorded
1966
Girls / boys
45 / 7,340

How old the living Isais are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 7,385 babies given the name since 1966, about 7,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Isai is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Isai is most concentrated in Texas (4.0×), Arizona (3.7×), California (3.4×), Colorado (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Isai peaked:

All the names of 2007

Isai elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Isai +1 spelling 285 2,087th
Belgium boys Isaï +1 spelling 25 1,005th
Switzerland boys Isai 23 1,287th
England and Wales boys Isai 16 3,254th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Isai: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Isai 22 0.002% 967th
French boys Switzerland Isai 1 0.000% 645th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Isai: rank by region

In 2025, Isai was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Isaï 806 6

In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Isai appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (293rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Isai among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Isai 8 9

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Isai lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 335 men called Isai were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Lleida Isai 11 0.047 1,332
Cantabria Isai 12 0.042 1,091
Burgos Isai 7 0.039 1,244
Rioja, La Isai 6 0.037 1,385
Bizkaia Isai 18 0.032 1,435
Palmas, Las Isai 16 0.028 2,585

Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.