Issiah

#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births

Peak · boys
1998 · 77 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,402
since 1916

Issiah over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Issiah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201916peak #1,459, 1998boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#9,8947
2023#8,9218
2022#8,9908
2021#12,1465
2020#5,23517
2019#8,2159
2018#8,1549
2017#8,8408
2016#7,15711
2015#7,49110
2014#5,73315
2013#3,49730
2012#3,45031
2011#2,79842
2010#3,01438
2009#2,48651
2008#2,34555
2007#2,16462
2006#2,01066
2005#1,72577
2004#1,83467
2003#1,73970
2002#1,63673
2001#1,80062
2000#1,60973
1999#1,56071
1998#1,45977
1997#1,79053
1996#2,07341
1995#2,29934
1994#3,10922
1993#4,69712
1992#4,11414
1991#5,09610
1990#3,30918
1989#2,90221
1988#6,4266
1987#5,4597
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1985#5,1477
1984#6,3155
1983#4,1419
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1978#3,8579
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five boys were named Issiah! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1916–1924, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Issiah is popular in 1916

No state had 5 or more boys named Issiah in 1916, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Issiah
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 2,700 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #7,194)
  • 1,959 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #7,194)
  • 297 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
82 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1998 at #1,459 (77 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,823
  • Highest: 1 in 24,823 boys born in 1998 were named Issiah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 46.8% of all boys named Issiah (656) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#3,897 (1916)#3,897
1920s12#3,408 (1925)#3,809
1930s5#3,534 (1938)#3,534
1940s10#3,430 (1944)#3,560
1950s13#2,964 (1955)#3,396
1960s10#3,948 (1966)#3,991
1970s25#3,857 (1978)#5,078
1980s55#2,902 (1989)#5,065
1990s352#1,459 (1998)#2,951
2000s656#1,609 (2000)#1,935
2010s203#2,798 (2011)#5,835
2020s56#5,235 (2020)#8,730

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.

Issiah in 1916

boys
#3,897
5 births · 1 in 178,016 boys

Top boys' names in 1916

  1. #1John50,043
  2. #2William40,418
  3. #3James35,569
  4. #4Robert31,741
  5. #5Joseph23,883
  6. #6Charles23,612
  7. #7George23,381
  8. #8Edward17,005
  9. #9Frank15,291
  10. #10Thomas11,998
  11. #3,897Issiah5
More about 1916

boys

890,080 boys got a published name in 1916; 1 in 178,016 of them was named Issiah, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,535 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Issiah
  1. #3,516Zan6
  2. #3,516Zigmunt6
  3. #3,516Zola6
  4. #3,897Issiah5
  5. #3,897Abelino5
  6. #3,897Achilles5
  7. #3,897Adair5

Tied with 638 names at #3,897; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1915
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,568Tatsuo#3,392 → #824
  2. ↑ 1,088Hughes#1,878 → #790
  3. ↑ 410Angel#1,181 → #771
  4. ↑ 378Trinidad#1,181 → #803
  5. ↑ 354Rolla#1,306 → #952
Fallers
  1. ↓ 500Nicolas#804 → #1,304
  2. ↓ 468Collins#906 → #1,374
  3. ↓ 463Hilliard#952 → #1,415
  4. ↓ 383Arvo#952 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 363Rayford#941 → #1,304

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1916 →