Eisen — boys' name
202 babies named Eisen in U.S. Social Security records since 1953, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Eisen was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Eisen in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Eisen
The Social Security Administration has registered 202 babies named Eisen between 1953 and 2023, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Eisen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Eisen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Eisen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Eisen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Eisen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 202 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Eisen at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Eisen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1953
- Peak year (2020)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 71 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
202 total births across 71 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 21 births in a single year.
Eisen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 100 births that decade — 50% of Eisen's all-time total
Eisen decade highlights
- Peak decade 100 births
- Runner-up 56 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Eisen's strongest decade
100 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Eisen by state
Where Eisen concentrates geographically — total births since 1953
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 17 | 8.4% |
17 of 202 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 8.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1953–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.