Isis: Meaning of Baby Name Isis

About the Name Isis

Isis is the name of the ancient Egyptian goddess of magic, motherhood, and healing, one of the most powerful and widely worshipped deities of the ancient world. As a mythological name, its meaning lies in the figure herself rather than in any literal translation, and it carries a deep sense of mystery, devotion, and feminine power drawn from millennia of legend, ritual, and reverence across the ancient Mediterranean world.

The two syllables, I-sis, give it a smooth, symmetrical sound, simple yet striking, with an elegant balance that makes it instantly memorable. The name reads as mystical and bold, a choice steeped in ancient lore that long appealed to parents drawn to goddess names, Egyptian heritage, and names with a sense of timeless power and enchantment. Its symmetry and brevity give it a distinctive, almost incantatory quality.

Isis first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and reached its peak in 2005 at rank #522, remaining on the chart through 2014, when it ranked #703, with 7,347 top-1000 births in total. That presence across the 2000s and into the early 2010s marks Isis as a name with a substantial, if now quieter, place in recent American naming, carried by its ancient mythological resonance and its enduring associations with magic, motherhood, and feminine strength.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Isis

280

Egyptian baby names in our dictionary

92

Egyptian female names

54

4-letter I-names in our dictionary

195

I-female names total

2000–2014

years of US SSA records (15 total)

7,347

total US births named Isis (all years)

US Popularity History (2000–2014)

📉 Falling fast: Isis dropped 93 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#610 in 2009 → #703 in 2014).

Annual US births named Isis by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2005 with 561 girls named Isis (girl rank #522 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2014, ranked #703 for girls (401 US births). That's 181 places below its 2005 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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