Yeshaya
Yeshaya was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,987 among boys’ names; 856 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yeshaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yeshaya?
#2,987 among boys’ names, 2025
Yeshaya rose from #4,399 in 2015 to #2,987 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 24.6 per million.
44 babies in 2024, the peak
Yeshaya peaked in 2024, when 44 boys were given it, #2,911 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,987 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,911 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,560 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,460 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,906 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,269 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,099 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,088 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,771 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,678 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,399 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,689 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,334 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,887 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,346 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,805 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,270 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #4,038 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,239 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,667 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,268 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,591 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,105 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,068 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,996 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,565 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,751 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #4,009 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,948 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,964 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,774 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,280 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,757 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,659 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,500 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,162 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,882 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,408 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,123 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,766 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,541 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,219 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,579 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,575 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yeshaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yeshaya has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yeshaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yeshaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 842 Americans named Yeshaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 590 people named Yeshaya (12 women and girls, 578 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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 Yeshaya born?
The states with the most babies named Yeshaya are New Jersey, New York and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 17 | #467 | 9.6× |
| New York | 14 | #946 | 6.2× |
| California | 5 | #2,803 | 0.1× |
Where Yeshaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yeshaya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 9.6 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 Yeshaya 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,559 babies since 1880, Yeshaya is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 267 babies (16%), 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 Yeshaya
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 Yeshaya and names like it
- Compare Yeshaya and YeshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYeshaya peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yeshaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yeshaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yeshaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.