Isis
Isis was given to 128 girls in 2025, #1,625 among girls’ names; 11,893 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,700 Americans named Isis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Isis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Isis is “a female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.”
Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian st-t:H8-B1 (ꜣst).
/ˈaɪ.sɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Isis?
#1,625 among girls’ names, 2025
Isis rose from #1,784 in 2015 to #1,625 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 65.5 to 79.6 per million.
561 babies in 2005, the peak
Isis peaked in 2005, when 561 girls were given it, #522 among girls’ names. The 128 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 128 | #1,625 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 230 | #1,080 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,464 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,800 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,794 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,451 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,574 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,073 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,111 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,119 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,784 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 401 | #704 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 501 | #575 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 467 | #615 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 450 | #633 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 471 | #625 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 495 | #610 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 504 | #607 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 553 | #553 | 0.29 |
| 2006 | 519 | #567 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 561 | #522 | 0.30 |
| 2004 | 532 | #535 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 467 | #588 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 472 | #562 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 485 | #545 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 470 | #556 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 414 | #594 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 376 | #625 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 303 | #710 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 218 | #901 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 201 | #938 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 187 | #990 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 182 | #1,018 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 132 | #1,288 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 150 | #1,164 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,671 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 85 | #1,631 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,916 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,998 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,934 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,791 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,059 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,719 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,760 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,168 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,054 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,884 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,539 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 87 | #1,329 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 124 | #1,011 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,610 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,942 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,838 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,446 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,302 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,332 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,797 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Isis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Isis has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Isis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isis, and how old are they?
11,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,893 Americans ever recorded as Isis. The median Isis alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 12,086 people named Isis (11,988 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,972 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 526 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,660 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,040 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Isis born?
The states with the most babies named Isis are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,525 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,741 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #786 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,599 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,071 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #652 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,082 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #2,219 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,496 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,551 | 0.7× |
Where Isis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Isis is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Isis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,286 babies since 1880, Isis is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 128 of their 139 babies (92%), again the most given.
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 Isis
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 Isis and names like it
- Compare Isis and IsyssBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIsis peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isis since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Isis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Isis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.