Isatou

#10,420 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Isatou has been given to 335 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #10,420 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Isatou, 2025

1 in 368,000

Isatou over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Isatou?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,420
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isatou sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isatou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isatous were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isatou was born before 2007 — so the typical Isatou is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
335
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Choose a decade

2000s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (136).

Is Isatou 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
+5,813
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,637
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+844
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.9%
Peak was 2003 (22)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,482
2003

Spellings of Isatou

Isatou is not the most common spelling — Fatou is, with 48.7% against Isatou's 13.4%.

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.

Where Isatou is used

Across 1910–2025, Isatou was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 204,287 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Isatou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Isatou around the world

Where Isatou 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
    1997–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Isatou by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,420
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,637
Best rank ever
#5,482
2003
Peak year
2003
22 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
335
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Isatou

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Sibling names for Isatou

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