Isiah
- Pronunciation
- [I-si-ah]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- God's Helper
- Origin
- Hebrew
About the Name Isiah
Isiah is an alternate spelling of the Hebrew name Isaiah, from the Hebrew Yeshayahu, meaning God saves or God is salvation — the same root behind the name of the Old Testament prophet whose book forms a major part of the Hebrew Bible and is widely quoted across Jewish and Christian traditions. The variant spelling Isiah drops the second a of the traditional form, producing a phonetically equivalent name with a slightly streamlined orthography. Recorded variants include Isa and Issiah.
In SSA data, Isiah first entered the male top-1000 in 2000 and peaked at #336 in 2001, accumulating 8,391 top-1000 births over its thirteen-year tracked span. The name appeared as a secondary spelling alongside the dominant Isaiah, which saw much broader use through the same period. By 2011 it ranked #639 with 366 births, dipped to #776 with 293 births in 2012, and reached its final tracked position at #816 with 266 births in 2013.
Recorded variants are Isa and Issiah. Isiah carries all the scriptural depth and sonorous beauty of Isaiah — the prophet's name is associated with eloquence, vision, and divine promise — while offering a spelling that is phonetically identical but visually slightly less common. For parents drawn to the prophetic tradition and the name's rich sound, Isiah provides a meaningful alternative spelling within a name family with millennia of resonance across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Isiah
US Popularity History (2000–2013)
Annual US births named Isiah by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2001 with 822 boys named Isiah (boy rank #336 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2013, ranked #816 for boys (266 US births). That's 480 places below its 2001 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Isiah Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Isiah the strongest states are Maryland, Louisiana, Michigan.
Strongest boys-name states
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Isiah in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Isiah to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Isiah against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).