girls:
27 births since 1990
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.9k births since 1966
#1410 (69th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1966
#3228 (58th percentile)
The name Isai is the #3,228 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,974 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 58.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,410 (69.2% percentile) for all time with 6,947 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1990.
Isai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Isai is available in 51 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (51 years for boys and 5 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 Isai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Isai reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 34.2% percentile (ranked #581) with 150 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 150 births per million (ranked 34.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Isai ranks #718 for boys (21.2% percentile) with 108 births per million, which is 71.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Isai reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #858) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isai".
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Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Isai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 16.7% confident that Isai is pronounced as ih-ZAI-ai, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-SAI, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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