Islay

Peak · girls
2021 · 51 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
378
since 1999

Islay over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Islay has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#5,23824
2024#4,47331
2023#5,54922
2022#3,17151
2021#3,15751
2020#4,16933
2019#3,92337
2018#6,01020
2017#7,84014
2016#6,90117
2015#8,44713
2014#11,9318
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2012#9,10912
2011#13,3477
2010#16,9925
2009#17,2945
2008#17,5045
2007#15,4916
2006#15,1526
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First appearance
1999

The first year at least five girls were named Islay! It came in at #12,688, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2000–2005, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Islay is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Islay in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Islay
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 765 spots since 2024 (#4,473 → #5,238)
  • 1,069 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #5,238)
  • 3,209 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #5,238)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1999
  • Peaked 2021 at #3,157 (51 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 32,159
  • Highest: 1 in 32,159 girls born in 2022 were named Islay (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,157 in 2021, was only 1 in 32,174 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 56.1% of all girls named Islay (212) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s6#12,688 (1999)#12,688
2000s27#15,152 (2006)#16,308
2010s133#3,923 (2019)#9,389
2020s212#3,157 (2021)#4,293

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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