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Islam

#4,180 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Submission, surrender

Islam has been given to 817 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,180 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.

Babies named Islam, 2025

1 in 133,000

Islam over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Islam over time

In 2025, Islam went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19752025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Islam: meaning, origin, and history

Submission, surrender

Arabic

What Islam means

Islam means “submission, surrender”, associated with ʔislām.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama). First attested in 1610.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Islam (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Islam is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Islam comes through Arabic إِسْلَام.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Islam is pronounced /ˈɪs.lɑːm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 689 boys were recorded with the name Islam between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,894 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,598 in 2020 to #4,180 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,101 in 2015 to #4,180 in 2025.

In the United States, 128 girls were recorded with the name Islam between 1986 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1999; its best national rank was #7,149 in 1989.

How common is Islam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,180
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Islam 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Islam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Islams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Islam was born before 2005 — so the typical Islam is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
689
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Islam 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
−698
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+418
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,921
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.79×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.8%
Peak was 2024 (33)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,894
1990

Spellings of Islam

Islam is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 60.2% against Islam's 0.13%.

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 Islam is used

Across 1910–2025, Islam was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 386,800 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Islam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Islam around the world

Where Islam 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
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    1977–2025
    #1,141
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Islam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,180
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 418
Best rank ever
#2,894
1990
Peak year
2024
33 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
689
Count in 2025
25

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,149
1989
Peak year
1999
13 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
128
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Islam

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

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Sibling names for Islam

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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