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Yishai

#3,578 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jesse

Yishai has been given to 445 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #3,578 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Yishai, 2025

1 in 104,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yishai: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jesse

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yishai means

Yishai is a form of Jesse.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yishai → Jesse → Ἰεσσαί → יִשַׁי. The family’s meaning is “gift, present”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements sháy.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jesse.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 445 boys were recorded with the name Yishai between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,578 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,415 in 2020 to #3,578 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,281 in 2015 to #3,578 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 Yishai?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,578
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yishai 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yishai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yishais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yishai was born before 2014 — so the typical Yishai is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
445
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (144).

Is Yishai 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
+2,599
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+837
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,703
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.78×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (32)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,578
2025

Spellings of Yishai

Yishai is not the most common spelling — Isai is, with 30.1% against Yishai's 1.8%.

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 Yishai is used

Across 1910–2025, Yishai was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 181,433 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. 3New 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. Yishai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yishai around the world

Where Yishai 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
    2004–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2023
    #5,604
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2021–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yishai by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,578
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 837
Best rank ever
#3,578
2025
Peak year
2025
32 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
445
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Yishai

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

JakhaiMekhaiJachaiMachaiYisraelMakhaiZakhaiMikhaiAbishaiAvishaiMalakhaiMichaiChaiYisroelAshaiZachaiThaiMihaiMalachaiNakhaiYishayAkhaiShaiKhai

Sibling names for Yishai

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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