Isley
Isley is given to both girls and boys: 62 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,761 among girls’ names and #6,247 among boys’, #4,263 among all names counting both); 1,475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Isley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Isley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Isley?
#2,761 among girls’ names, 2025
Isley fell from #2,597 in 2015 to #2,761 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.7 to 38.6 per million.
115 babies in 2016, the peak
Isley peaked in 2016, when 115 babies were given it (93 girls, #2,100 among girls’ names). The 76 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,761 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,570 | 10 | #7,974 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,716 | 13 | #6,672 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,590 | 12 | #6,978 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,801 | 10 | #7,806 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,695 | 15 | #5,808 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,142 | 13 | #6,556 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,659 | 9 | #8,422 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,822 | 15 | #5,901 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,100 | 22 | #4,522 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,597 | 15 | #5,834 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,119 | 14 | #6,106 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,817 | 8 | #9,111 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,642 | 12 | #6,769 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,726 | 12 | #6,751 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,435 | 12 | #6,828 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,183 | 11 | #7,396 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,190 | 13 | #6,544 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,246 | 6 | #11,455 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,168 | 6 | #11,174 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,094 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,589 | 7 | #9,302 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,175 | 6 | #10,054 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,569 | 9 | #7,261 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,461 | 6 | #9,732 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,123 | 5 | #11,049 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,968 | 8 | #7,424 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,205 | 6 | #8,905 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,277 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,342 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,002 | 5 | #9,280 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,053 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,792 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Isley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,475 Americans recorded as Isley, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Isley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Isley, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,475 Americans ever recorded as Isley. The median Isley alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,024 people named Isley (784 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,027 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 395 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 60,944 babies since 1880, Isley is the second most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 6,180 babies (1.2%), again the second 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 Isley
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 Isley and names like it
- Compare Isley and IslaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIsley peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Isley since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Isley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Isley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.