girls:
5 births since 2007
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
36 births since 1920
#4550 (1st percentile)
overall:
41 births since 1920
#7698 (1st percentile)
The name Isah is the #7,698 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 0.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,550 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1920. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2007.
Isah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for boys and 2007 for girls). Birth data for Isah is available in 6 out of the 88 years between 1920 and 2007 (6 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Isah has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2007, 50.0% of babies named Isah were boys.
For boys, Isah reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #551) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
For girls, Isah reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #987) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Isah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Isa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Isa..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Isah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Isah is pronounced as EE-suh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-zuh, at 21.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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