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Izaiah vs Izayah

American parents have registered 14,909 Izaiahs since 1880, against 4,276 Izayahs. Izaiah is still ahead, with 439 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Izaiah Izayah

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

Izaiah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1984 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Izaiah had 727 and Izayah had 267.

Side by side

  Izaiah Izayah
Total US births 14,9094,276
Most in one year 744267
Babies in 2025 43997
Estimated living today 15,0004,200
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 400th boys816th boys
Rank in 2025 635th1,778th
First recorded 19841994
Girls / boys 10 / 14,8997 / 4,269

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Izaiah Izayah
England and Wales 419106
France 105 Izaïah135

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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