Izaya
Izaya was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,882 among boys’ names; 1,086 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Izaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Izaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Izaya?
#7,882 among boys’ names, 2025
Izaya fell from #4,121 in 2015 to #7,882 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.0 to 5.9 per million.
81 babies in 2006, the peak
Izaya peaked in 2006, when 81 boys were given it, #1,730 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,882 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,135 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,152 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,483 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,996 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,766 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,936 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,994 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,153 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,559 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,121 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,114 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,730 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,533 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,561 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,297 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,719 | 22.7 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,390 | 26.5 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,006 | 33.7 |
| 2006 | 81 | #1,730 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,444 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,031 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,288 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,166 | 25.2 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,538 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,264 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,684 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,883 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,592 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,708 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Izaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Izaya has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Izaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Izaya, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,086 Americans ever recorded as Izaya. The median Izaya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 775 people named Izaya (19 women and girls, 756 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 964 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 742 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 321 |
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).
How common is the spelling Izaya?
Izaya is a less common spelling of Izaiah: SSA has recorded 1,086 Izaya and 14,909 Izaiah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,579 babies since 1880, Izaya is the third most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 552 babies (1.8%), again the third 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 Izaya
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 Izaya and names like it
- Compare Izaya and IzaiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIzaya peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Izaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Izaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Izaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.