Isaah
Isaah was last recorded in 2014, when 7 babies were given it; 409 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isaah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Isaah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,041, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 2001, the peak
Isaah peaked in 2001, when 34 boys were given it, #2,756 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #10,041 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,978 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,055 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,258 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,485 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,771 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,048 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,569 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,107 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,661 | 9.1 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 29 | #3,221 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,086 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,756 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,016 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,964 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,754 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,198 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,892 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,908 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,609 | 4.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,319 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,649 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Isaah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isaah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Isaah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isaah, and how old are they?
An estimated 396 Americans named Isaah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 19 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 501 people named Isaah (8 women and girls, 493 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Isaah?
Isaah is a less common spelling of Issa: SSA has recorded 409 Isaah and 3,217 Issa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 294,145 babies since 1880, Isaah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 5,773 babies recorded by SSA was a Isaah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Isaah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Isaah and names like it
- Compare Isaah and IssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIsaah peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isaah since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Isaah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Isaah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.