Issah — boys' name
66 babies named Issah in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Issah was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Issah in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Issah
The Social Security Administration has registered 66 babies named Issah between 1995 and 2021, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Issah currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Issah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 27 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Issah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Issah 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 66 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.
Issah at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Issah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1995
- Peak year (2018)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
66 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 10 births in a single year.
Issah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 27 births that decade — 41% of Issah's all-time total
Issah decade highlights
- Peak decade 27 births
- Runner-up 22 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Issah's strongest decade
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1995–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.