Islah

#3,009 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Islah has been given to 601 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,009 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Islah, 2025

1 in 60,300

Islah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 29,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,009
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Islah 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Islah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Islahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Islah was born before 2020 — so the typical Islah is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
57.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
596
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 57.0% of all recorded uses (340).

Is Islah 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
+1,143
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−531
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+9,261
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.6%
Peak was 2020 (70)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
68.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,478
2020

Spellings of Islah

Islah is not the most common spelling — Isla is, with 26.0% against Islah's 0.27%.

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 Islah is used

Across 1910–2025, Islah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 264,260 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5South Carolina1 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. Islah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Islah around the world

Where Islah 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
    2007–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2019
    #5,140
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Islah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,009
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 531
Best rank ever
#2,478
2020
Peak year
2020
70 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
596
Count in 2025
55

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,967
2016
Peak year
2016
5 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Islah

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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