girls:
128 births since 1986
#5588 (2nd percentile)
boys:
631 births since 1975
#3955 (14th percentile)
overall:
759 births since 1975
#6980 (10th percentile)
The name Islam is the #6,980 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 759 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 9.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,955 (13.7% percentile) for all time with 631 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,588 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 128 births since 1986.
Islam first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Islam is available in 47 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 17 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 Islam has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Islam were boys.
For boys, Islam reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #774) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Islam ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 85.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Islam reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #815) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Islam".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Islam. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.1% confident that Islam is pronounced as ih-SLAHM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IHZ-luhm, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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