Isaiah
Isaiah places #57 across the country in 2025, holding steady. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 254,020 bearers and counting.
What Isaiah carries
Isaiah · Hebrew
“salvation of the Lord”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Isaiah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Isaiah, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Isaiah since 1880
Isaiah peaked in 2006 at #39; #57 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Isaiah is most common
Among the states, Isaiah takes its largest share in Hawaii, 0.79% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Nevada and New Mexico next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Isaiah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Isaac
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ivan
#163 in 2025 · Hebrew
Caleb
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Hannah
#56 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Nathan
#63 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jacob
#43 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ian
#83 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Isaiah
How common is Isaiah today?
Isaiah places #57 across the country in 2025, holding steady. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Isaiah mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “salvation of the Lord”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Isaiah?
The recipe puts Isaac first, then Caleb, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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