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Isom

#9,224 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Isom has been given to 1,783 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,224 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Isom, 2025

1 in 414,000

Isom over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isom: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isom means

Isom is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Isom is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,783 boys were recorded with the name Isom between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1920; its best national rank was #339 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,132 in 2020 to #9,224 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,959 in 2015 to #9,224 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 Isom?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,224
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isom 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isoms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isom was born before 1928 — so the typical Isom is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
524
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Choose a decade

1920s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (277).

Is Isom 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
+3,806
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,908
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+735
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.6%
Peak was 1920 (37)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#339
1884

Spellings of Isom

Isom is not the most common spelling — Tom is, with 44.9% against Isom's 0.57%.

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 Isom is used

Across 1910–2025, Isom was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 199,792 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Isom has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Isom by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,224
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,908
Best rank ever
#339
1884
Peak year
1920
37 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,783
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Isom

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

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Sibling names for Isom

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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