Issiah
#7,363 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Issiah has been given to 1,402 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #7,363 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 77 recorded.
Babies named Issiah, 2025
1 in 301,000
Issiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Issiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,363
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Issiah 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Issiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Issiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Issiah was born before 2003 — so the typical Issiah is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,370
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (656).
Is Issiah 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
- +2,933
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,033
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +338
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.10×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.3%
- Peak was 1998 (77)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Issiah
Issiah is not the most common spelling — Isaiah is, with 46.7% against Issiah's 0.26%.
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 Issiah is used
Across 1910–2025, Issiah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 257,976 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Washington1 in 100,000
- 3Arizona1 in —
- 4Indiana1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 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. Issiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Issiah around the world
Where Issiah 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 & Wales2000–2015#3,908in 2015
- Canada1996–2006#1,929in 2006
- South Australia1982–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Issiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Issiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Issiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.