girls:
671 births since 1976
#5045 (12th percentile)
boys:
243.3k births since 1880
#156 (97th percentile)
overall:
243.9k births since 1880
#327 (96th percentile)
The name Isaiah is the #327 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 243,947 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #156 (96.6% percentile) for all time with 243,276 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,045 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 671 births since 1976.
Isaiah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1976 for girls).
The name Isaiah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Isaiah reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 95.7% percentile (ranked #39) with 4,770 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 4,770 births per million (ranked 95.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Isaiah ranks #54 for boys (94.2% percentile) with 2,797 births per million, which is 58.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Isaiah reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #884) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Isaiah ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 25.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isaiah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Isaiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Isaiah is pronounced as ai-ZAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-ZAY-uh, at 25.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AY0 Z EY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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