Issai — boys' name
91 babies named Issai in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
60% of everyone ever named Issai was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Issai in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Issai
The Social Security Administration has registered 91 babies named Issai between 1990 and 2016, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Issai currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Issai performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 55 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Issai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Issai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Issai 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 91 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.
Issai at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Issai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1990
- Peak year (2006)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
91 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 14 births in a single year.
Issai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 55 births that decade — 60% of Issai's all-time total
Issai decade highlights
- Peak decade 55 births
- Runner-up 24 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Issai's strongest decade
55 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 60% of all-time use.
Issai by state
Where Issai concentrates geographically — total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 7 | 7.7% |
7 of 91 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 7.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 7.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1990–2016 (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.