Ishi — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ishi

The Social Security Administration has registered 112 babies named Ishi between 2006 and 2023, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ishi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Ishi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ishi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ishi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ishi 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 112 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.