girls:
10 births since 2010
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
14k births since 1984
#988 (78th percentile)
overall:
14k births since 1984
#2218 (71st percentile)
The name Izaiah is the #2,218 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,989 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 71.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #988 (78.5% percentile) for all time with 13,979 births since 1984. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2010.
Izaiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (1984 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Izaiah is available in 38 out of the 40 years between 1984 and 2023 (38 years for boys and 2 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 Izaiah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Izaiah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 58.3% percentile (ranked #376) with 359 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 359 births per million (ranked 58.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Izaiah ranks #499 for boys (45.3% percentile) with 268 births per million, which is 74.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Izaiah reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #949) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Izaiah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Izaiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.9% confident that Izaiah is pronounced as ai-ZAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-ZAI-uh, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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.
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