girls:
11 births since 1996
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
24.4k births since 1880
#735 (84th percentile)
overall:
24.4k births since 1880
#1623 (79th percentile)
The name Isiah is the #1,623 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,447 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 79.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #735 (84.0% percentile) for all time with 24,436 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1996.
Isiah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1996 for girls).
The name Isiah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Isiah reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 61.0% percentile (ranked #322) with 397 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 397 births per million (ranked 61.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Isiah ranks #785 for boys (13.8% percentile) with 72 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Isiah reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #858) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isiah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Isiah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 50 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Isaiah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Isaiah..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Isiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Isiah is pronounced as ai-ZAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-zai-uh, at 25.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
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 AY1 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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