Yishai
Yishai was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,578 among boys’ names; 445 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yishai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yishai?
#3,578 among boys’ names, 2025
Yishai rose from #5,281 in 2015 to #3,578 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 18.7 per million.
32 babies in 2025, the peak
Yishai peaked in 2025, when 32 boys were given it, #3,578 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 15 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,578 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,177 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,334 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,559 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,929 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,415 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,753 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,598 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,080 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,039 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,281 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,670 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,226 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,285 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,983 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,468 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,092 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,054 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,424 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,893 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,203 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,513 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,697 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,509 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,912 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,898 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,875 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,448 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,234 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,501 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,459 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yishai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yishai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yishai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yishai, and how old are they?
An estimated 440 Americans named Yishai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Yishai (1 woman or girl, 297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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 Yishai born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #912 | 6.6× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #911 | 0.6× |
Where Yishai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yishai is most over-represented in New York: since 1990 it was given 6.6 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 Yishai 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 905 babies since 1880, Yishai is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 56 babies (57%), again the 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 Yishai
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 Yishai and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yishai.
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