Islam
The boy's name Islam has been in the national records since 1975, with 817 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,139th. About 800 Islams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Islam boys named Islam
Girls and boys called Islam
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 128 girls and 689 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 25.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 10 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 817
- Estimated living today
- 800
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 3,455th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,139th
- First recorded
- 1975
- Girls / boys
- 128 / 689
How old the living Islams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 817 babies given the name since 1975, about 800 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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.
Notable Islams
- Islam Karimov (1938–2016)1st President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Islam Slimani (born 1988)Algerian association football player
- Islam Makhachev (born 1991)Russian mixed martial arts fighter
- Islam Bibi (1974–2013)Afghan human rights activist
- Islam Bairamukov (born 1971)Olympic wrestler
- Islam Abbasov (born 1996)Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler
- Islam Satpayev (born 1998)Kazakhstani sport shooter
- Islam Dudaev (born 1995)Albanian wrestler
People named Islam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Islam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Islam is most concentrated in New York (10.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Islam peaked:
Islam elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Islam | 1,300 | 708th |
| Italy boys | Islam | 814 | — |
| France girls | Islam | 260 | 1,821st |
| England and Wales boys | Islam | 206 | 1,595th |
| Belgium boys | Islam | 161 | 638th |
| Poland boys | Islam | 56 birth registrations | 257th |
| Switzerland boys | Islam | 38 | 1,366th |
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.
Islam: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Islam | 24 | 0.002% | 767th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Islam | 14 | 0.003% | 673rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Islam: rank by region
In 2025, Islam was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Islam | 914 | 5 |
| Brussels | Islam | 265 | 5 |
In 2018, Islam was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Islam | 10 | 6 |
In 2024, Islam was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Islam | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Islam appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Islam among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Islam | 22 | 48 |
| Finland girls | Islam | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Islam lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,195 men called Islam and 553 women called Islam were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Islam | 43 | 1.020 | 166 |
| Almería | Islam | 84 | 0.214 | 429 |
| Melilla | Islam | 9 | 0.206 | 522 |
| Lleida | Islam | 28 | 0.119 | 695 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Islam | 34 | 0.109 | 696 |
| Tarragona | Islam | 46 | 0.105 | 734 |
Listed in 37 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 15 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Islam | 130 | 3.002 | 67 |
| Ceuta | Islam | 6 | 0.145 | 688 |
| Tarragona | Islam | 29 | 0.066 | 1,097 |
| Murcia | Islam | 48 | 0.061 | 981 |
| Lleida | Islam | 11 | 0.049 | 1,251 |
| Girona | Islam | 20 | 0.048 | 1,317 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Islam against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.