Issiah
Issiah was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,363 among boys’ names; 1,402 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Issiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Issiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Issiah?
#7,363 among boys’ names, 2025
Issiah rose from #7,701 in 2015 to #7,363 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 6.4 per million.
77 babies in 1998, the peak
Issiah peaked in 1998, when 77 boys were given it, #1,458 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,363 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,296 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,241 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,315 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,865 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,330 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,459 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,423 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,169 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,326 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,701 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,834 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,529 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,474 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,823 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,038 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,497 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,355 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,172 | 29.9 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,021 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 77 | #1,727 | 38.6 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,840 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 70 | #1,737 | 35.4 |
| 2002 | 73 | #1,637 | 37.6 |
| 2001 | 62 | #1,801 | 31.9 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,613 | 37.2 |
| 1999 | 71 | #1,560 | 37.0 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,458 | 40.3 |
| 1997 | 53 | #1,798 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,083 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,311 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,155 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,818 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,198 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,249 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,363 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,935 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,738 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,723 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,387 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,728 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,286 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,446 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,977 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,823 | 3.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,204 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,311 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,078 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,076 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,947 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,649 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,765 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,478 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,562 | 6.3 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,196 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Issiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Issiah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Issiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Issiah, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,402 Americans ever recorded as Issiah. The median Issiah alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,255 people named Issiah (6 women and girls, 1,249 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 198 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 951 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
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 Issiah born?
The states with the most babies named Issiah are California, New York and Texas, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 107 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 61 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 9 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Issiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Issiah?
Issiah is a less common spelling of Isiah: SSA has recorded 1,402 Issiah and 24,721 Isiah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 287,335 babies since 1880, Issiah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 5,592 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Issiah
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 Issiah and names like it
- Compare Issiah and IsiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sIssiah peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Issiah since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Issiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Issiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.