Yeshayahu

#13,840 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Yeshayahu has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #13,840 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Yeshayahu, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Yeshayahu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,840
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yeshayahu 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yeshayahu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yeshayahus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yeshayahu was born before 2011 — so the typical Yeshayahu is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
36
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Choose a decade

1990s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Yeshayahu 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+128
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2008 (6)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,457
1990

Spellings of Yeshayahu

Yeshayahu is not the most common spelling — Yeshaya is, with 96.0% against Yeshayahu's 4.0%.

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.

Yeshayahu around the world

Where Yeshayahu 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
    2021–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Yeshayahu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,840
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,457
1990
Peak year
2008
6 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Yeshayahu

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

Sibling names for Yeshayahu

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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