Izayah
Izayah was given to 90 boys in 2025, #1,784 among boys’ names; 4,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,230 Americans named Izayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Izayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Izayah?
#1,784 among boys’ names, 2025
Izayah fell from #1,106 in 2015 to #1,784 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 90.8 to 52.7 per million.
267 babies in 2011, the peak
Izayah peaked in 2011, when 267 boys were given it, #817 among boys’ names. The 97 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #1,784 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,678 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,627 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 89 | #1,819 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,474 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,472 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,270 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 182 | #1,079 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,150 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 174 | #1,106 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,062 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 211 | #945 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 250 | #852 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 267 | #817 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 244 | #861 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 258 | #838 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 197 | #992 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 215 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 189 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,042 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,298 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,227 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,177 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 80 | #1,514 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,522 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 53 | #1,866 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,736 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,513 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,477 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,126 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,266 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Izayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Izayah has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Izayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Izayah, and how old are they?
4,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,276 Americans ever recorded as Izayah. The median Izayah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,718 people named Izayah (24 women and girls, 2,694 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,626 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 35 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,820 |
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 Izayah born?
The states with the most babies named Izayah are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,023 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,813 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,707 | 1.0× |
Where Izayah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Izayah is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1994 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Izayah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,814 babies since 1880, Izayah is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 578 babies (17%), 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 Izayah
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 Izayah and names like it
- Compare Izayah and IzaiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIzayah peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Izayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Izayah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Izayah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.