Isai

Where Isai comes from

Isai hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1920
    Isai Rozenfeld born
    Estonian economist, chess player and chess journalist
  2. 1946
    Isai Scheinberg born
    Canadian businessman
  3. 1966
    First appearance
    #3,537 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2007
    Peak, #700
    333 babies named Isai — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,194.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Isai Scheinberg · Canadian businessman, born 1946
  • Isai Rozenfeld · Estonian economist, chess player and chess journalist, 1920–1990
  • Isai Rodriguez · American athlete, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.