girls:
11.5k births since 1901
#1465 (74th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 2001
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
11.5k births since 1901
#2455 (68th percentile)
The name Isis is the #2,455 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,531 recorded births since 1901. This represents the 68.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,465 (74.4% percentile) for all time with 11,519 births since 1901. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2001.
Isis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1901 (1901 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Isis is available in 61 out of the 123 years between 1901 and 2023 (61 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Isis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Isis reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 50.6% percentile (ranked #464) with 276 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 276 births per million (ranked 50.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Isis ranks #801 for girls (15.4% percentile) with 86 births per million, which is 31.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Isis reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #824) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Isis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Isis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.8% confident that Isis is pronounced as AI-sihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-suhs, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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