Island
#2,593 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Island has been given to 807 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,593 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 68 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.
Babies named Island, 2025
1 in 49,500
Island over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Island over time
In 2025, Island went to 80% girls and 20% boys.
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.
How common is Island?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 49,500
- 67 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 24,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,593
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 34,298 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Island sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Island. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Islands were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Island was born before 2020 — so the typical Island is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 698
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (358).
Is Island 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
- ±0
- No change
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +240
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,729
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.35×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 98.5%
- Peak was 2024 (68)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.6% average annual change
Spellings of Island
Island is not the most common spelling — Isla is, with 76.2% against Island's 0.91%.
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 Island is used
Across 2016–2025, Island was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 42,036 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 14,286
- 2Louisiana1 in 16,667
- 3Ohio1 in 25,000
- 4Michigan1 in 33,333
- 5New York1 in 50,000
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
- 7Texas1 in 50,000
- 8California1 in 100,000
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.
Island around the world
Where Island 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.
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Island by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Island
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Island
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.