# Isai (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/isai/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,385 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,340 / 45 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 16, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | 13,795 |
| 1992 | 6 | 12,327 |
| 2000 | 6 | 13,816 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,430 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,884 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12,678 |
| 2025 | 11 | 9,099 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 237 | 881 |
| 2012 | 212 | 953 |
| 2013 | 191 | 1,026 |
| 2014 | 168 | 1,133 |
| 2015 | 197 | 1,031 |
| 2016 | 185 | 1,066 |
| 2017 | 195 | 1,031 |
| 2018 | 193 | 1,054 |
| 2019 | 207 | 1,011 |
| 2020 | 161 | 1,194 |
| 2021 | 168 | 1,175 |
| 2022 | 160 | 1,232 |
| 2023 | 199 | 1,081 |
| 2024 | 205 | 1,063 |
| 2025 | 186 | 1,139 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |

## People named Isai

- Issai Schur, German mathematician (1875–1941)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.