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Islah

Islah reached its high-water mark in 2020 at number 2,468, and has been recorded 601 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,998th. About 600 Islahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Islah boys named Islah

By the numbers

Total US births
601
Estimated living today
600
Median age today
5
Peak year
2020
Best rank
2,468th
Rank in 2025
2,998th
First recorded
1977
Girls / boys
596 / 5

How old the living Islahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 601 babies given the name since 1977, about 600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 590 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Islah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Islah is most concentrated in Florida (7.9×), Texas (6.4×), California (1.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2020

The most popular girls’ names the year Islah peaked:

All the names of 2020

Islah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Islah 70 3,151st
France girls Islah 15 5,140th
France boys Islah 10 4,972nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Islah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.