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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#636 · 1 in 3,973
- Texas#662 · 1 in 4,823
- California#708 · 1 in 5,657
- New Jersey#777 · 1 in 5,941
- Georgia#835 · 1 in 6,105
Best ever in a state: #314 in New Mexico, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #636 | 7 | 1 in 3,973 |
| Texas | #662 | 39 | 1 in 4,823 |
| California | #708 | 40 | 1 in 5,657 |
| New Jersey | #777 | 7 | 1 in 5,941 |
| Georgia | #835 | 9 | 1 in 6,105 |
| Florida | #837 | 15 | 1 in 6,557 |
| Illinois | #1,185 | 6 | 1 in 11,065 |
| New York | #1,241 | 9 | 1 in 11,427 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 9,730 of them was named Isai, which outranked 92.7% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).