Isaiah
Isaiah reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 39, and has been recorded 254,710 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 57th. About 246,000 Isaiahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Isaiah boys named Isaiah
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 254,710
- Estimated living today
- 246,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 39th
- Rank in 2025
- 57th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 690 / 254,020
How old the living Isaiahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 254,710 babies given the name since 1880, about 246,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 127,000 of them are children and 1,600 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 the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Ancient Greek Ἠσαΐας from Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Isaiahs
- Isaiah Thomas (born 1989)American basketball player
- Isaiah Rashad (born 1991)American rapper from Tennessee
People named Isaiah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Isaiah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Isaiah is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.7×), Nevada (2.5×), Hawaii (2.3×), Alaska (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Isaiah peaked:
Isaiah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Isaiah | 4,967 | 156th |
| France boys | Isaïah +1 spelling | 4,735 | 174th |
| New Zealand boys | Isaiah | 509 | 85th |
| Belgium boys | Isaiah +1 spelling | 439 | 301st |
| Switzerland boys | Isaiah +1 spelling | 296 | 239th |
| Ireland boys | Isaiah | 95 | 390th |
| France girls | Isaïah +1 spelling | 85 | 3,015th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Isaiah | 64 | 187th |
| Scotland boys | Isaiah | 64 | 352nd |
| Poland boys | Isaiah | 4 birth registrations | 732nd |
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.
Isaiah: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Isaiah | 126 | 0.010% | 266th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Isaïah | 2 | 0.000% | 1,592nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Isaiah | 105 | 0.024% | 147th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Isaïah | 62 | 0.014% | 167th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Isaiah | 1 | 0.002% | 188th |
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.
By canton, Isaiah is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.06% of children were given it – 57 of them.
Isaiah: rank by region
In 2025, Isaiah was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Isaiah | 376 | 15 |
| Flanders | Isaïah | 714 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Isaïah | 235 | 12 |
| Wallonia | Isaiah | 267 | 10 |
| Brussels | Isaiah | 153 | 8 |
| Brussels | Isaïah | 265 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Isaiah appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (Isaïah, 131st), Brussels-Capital Region (Isaiah, 153rd), Province of Hainaut (Isaiah, 215th), Brussels-Capital Region (Isaïah, 265th) and Province of Antwerp (Isaiah, 341st).
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.
Isaiah by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 8 | 421st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Isaiah 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 | Isaiah | 20 | 53 |
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.
Related names
Isaiah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.