Isham
Isham was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 615 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isham by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Isham?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,402, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1922, the peak
Isham peaked in 1922, when 27 boys were given it, #1,452 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,402 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,090 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,052 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,718 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,169 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | #4,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,240 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,335 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,981 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,966 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,632 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,962 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,799 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,069 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,106 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,276 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,790 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,612 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,036 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,405 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,959 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,160 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,043 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 9 | #885 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,046 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 10 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 7 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 8 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 6 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 11 | #617 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 8 | #753 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 7 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 9 | #667 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 6 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 9 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 6 | #891 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 7 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 13 | #511 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Isham a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isham has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Isham: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isham, and how old are they?
An estimated 126 Americans named Isham and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 39 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 236 people named Isham (11 women and girls, 225 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Isham
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 Isham and names like it
- Compare Isham and RollaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isham since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Isham.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Isham alive today were born 1946-1964.
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