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Isaias vs Isaiha

American parents have registered 18,644 Isaiases since 1880, against 645 Isaihas. Isaias is still ahead, with 755 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Isaias against Isaiha, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Isaias Isaiha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Isaias has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Isaias had 253 and Isaiha had 47.

Side by side

  Isaias Isaiha
Total US births 18,644645
Most in one year 75547
Babies in 2025 7555
Estimated living today 18,000630
Median age today 1522
Peak year 20251997
Best rank 426th boys1,933rd boys
Rank in 2025 426th12,008th
First recorded 19151988
Girls / boys 0 / 18,6440 / 645

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Isaihas alive today are over 22; half the Isaiases are over 15. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Isaias and Isaiha.