Isai
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #1,138 for boys in 2025, 186 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 333 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,340since 1966
Isai over time
Rank among boys' names. Isai has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #1,138 | 186 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #1,062 | 205 |
| 2023 | — | #1,080 | 199 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,228 | 160 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,170 | 168 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,194 | 161 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,009 | 207 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,052 | 193 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,029 | 195 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,065 | 185 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,030 | 197 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,133 | 168 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,020 | 191 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #949 | 212 |
| 2011 | — | #881 | 237 | |
| 2010 | — | #872 | 241 | |
| 2009 | — | #816 | 270 | |
| 2008 | — | #738 | 310 | |
| 2007 | — | #700 | 333 | |
| 2006 | — | #712 | 305 | |
| 2005 | — | #737 | 274 | |
| 2004 | — | #702 | 275 | |
| 2003 | — | #741 | 243 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #724 | 245 |
| 2001 | — | #812 | 206 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #942 | 161 |
| 1999 | — | #844 | 179 | |
| 1998 | — | #962 | 144 | |
| 1997 | — | #951 | 141 | |
| 1996 | — | #897 | 149 | |
| 1995 | — | #982 | 128 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,041 | 114 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,160 | 93 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #1,246 | 82 |
| 1991 | — | #1,162 | 90 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,166 | 87 |
| 1989 | — | #1,162 | 83 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,576 | 46 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,974 | 31 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,725 | 36 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,698 | 36 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,979 | 27 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,864 | 29 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,996 | 27 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Isai! It came in at #3,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1972, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Isai is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#554 · 1 in 5,675
- California#632 · 1 in 8,063
- New York#1,273 · 1 in 23,141
Best ever in a state: #314 in New Mexico, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #554 | 27 | 1 in 5,675 |
| California | #632 | 36 | 1 in 8,063 |
| New York | #1,273 | 6 | 1 in 23,141 |
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See more about Isai
- 76 spots since 2024 (#1,062 → #1,138)
- 56 spots since 2020 (#1,194 → #1,138)
- 108 spots since 2015 (#1,030 → #1,138)
- Biggest jump: 130 spots in 2001 (#942 → #812)
- Biggest drop: 98 spots in 2000 (#844 → #942)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2007 at #700 (333 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1995–2012
- Highest: 1 in 6,232 boys born in 2007 were named Isai (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,183 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.7% of all boys named Isai (2,622) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,537 (1966) | #3,537 |
| 1970s | 48 | #2,777 (1979) | #4,362 |
| 1980s | 352 | #1,162 (1989) | #1,915 |
| 1990s | 1,207 | #844 (1999) | #1,041 |
| 2000s | 2,622 | #700 (2007) | #762 |
| 2010s | 2,026 | #872 (2010) | #1,004 |
| 2020s | 1,079 | #1,062 (2024) | #1,145 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Isai in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 379,709 of them was named Isai, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,276 names at #12,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 23,610 of them was named Isai, which outranked 87.7% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,156Marcelino88
- #1,156Ravi88
- #1,156Rohan88
- #1,166Isai87
- #1,166Bailey87
- #1,166Jennifer87
- #1,166Leif87
- #1,176Breon86
- #1,176Ishmael86
- #1,176Keyon86
Tied with 9 names at #1,166; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.