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Isam

#10,076 in 2025Boys' name

Security, pledge

Isam has been given to 299 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #10,076 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Isam, 2025

1 in 474,000

Isam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isam: meaning, origin, and history

Security, pledge

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isam means

Isam means “security, pledge”, associated with ʕiṣām.

Origin, language, and formation

Isam is used in English.

Isam comes through Arabic عِصَام.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 299 boys were recorded with the name Isam between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1998; its best national rank was #986 in 1880.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,817 in 2015 to #10,076 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Isam?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,076
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isam was born before 2002 — so the typical Isam is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
235
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Isam rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+218
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,741
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 1998 (11)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#986
1880

Spellings of Isam

Isam is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 28.3% against Isam's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Isam around the world

Where Isam ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #4,803
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Isam by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,076
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#986
1880
Peak year
1998
11 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
299
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Isam

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Isam

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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