Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Isaac” in the USA?

Number of people named “Isaac” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Isaac” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Isaac” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Isaac” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Isaac” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Isaac” by birth year

This chart shows how “Isaac” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 274 0.001359909 274 -100%
1881 258 0.001338952 258 -100%
1882 278 0.001254892 278 -100%
1883 227 0.001046343 227 -100%
1884 243 0.000998106 243 -100%
1885 204 0.000846986 204 -100%
1886 224 0.000877344 224 -100%
1887 194 0.000784181 194 -100%
1888 221 0.000737961 221 -100%
1889 188 0.000650641 188 -100%
1890 187 0.000620436 187 -100%
1891 160 0.000558127 160 -100%
1892 203 0.000607105 203 -100%
1893 182 0.000559616 182 -100%
1894 170 0.000501934 170 -100%
1895 172 0.000490001 172 -100%
1896 191 0.00053429 191 -100%
1897 175 0.000504385 175 -100%
1898 156 0.00040896 156 -100%
1899 139 0.000409747 139 -100%
1900 198 0.000439748 198 -100%
1901 133 0.000384602 133 -100%
1902 143 0.000369764 143 -100%
1903 138 0.000362015 138 -100%
1904 167 0.000413894 167 -100%
1905 147 0.000346762 147 -100%
1906 163 0.00038044 163 -100%
1907 178 0.000382475 178 -100%
1908 162 0.000331526 162 -100%
1909 209 0.000408823 209 -100%
1910 252 0.000426605 252 -100%
1911 233 0.000361645 233 -100%
1912 359 0.000363338 359 -100%
1913 398 0.00035001 398 -100%
1914 496 0.000350197 496 -100%
1915 568 0.000309972 568 -100%
1916 629 0.000325163 629 -100%
1917 622 0.000309954 622 -100%
1918 658 0.000303071 658 -100%
1919 744 0.000352566 7 737 -98%
1920 706 0.000312024 706 -100%
1921 648 0.000277575 648 -100%
1922 720 0.000314526 720 -100%
1923 698 0.000303151 698 -100%
1924 704 0.000295598 704 -100%
1925 684 0.000293147 6 678 -98%
1926 592 0.00025785 6 586 -98%
1927 693 0.00029879 693 -100%
1928 539 0.000238397 5 534 -98%
1929 585 0.00026686 585 -100%
1930 548 0.000246482 548 -100%
1931 443 0.000210513 443 -100%
1932 492 0.000233033 492 -100%
1933 486 0.000243067 6 480 -98%
1934 481 0.000231605 481 -100%
1935 481 0.000230155 5 476 -98%
1936 423 0.000203602 423 -100%
1937 452 0.00021214 5 447 -98%
1938 460 0.000207903 460 -100%
1939 468 0.000212395 5 463 -98%
1940 487 0.000211492 487 -100%
1941 451 0.000185107 451 -100%
1942 455 0.000166556 5 450 -98%
1943 481 0.000170413 481 -100%
1944 491 0.000182523 491 -100%
1945 465 0.000175279 5 460 -98%
1946 524 0.000163991 10 514 -96%
1947 604 0.00016767 5 599 -98%
1948 533 0.00015438 533 -100%
1949 599 0.000171891 599 -100%
1950 557 0.00015899 557 -100%
1951 560 0.000152019 6 554 -98%
1952 564 0.000148499 564 -100%
1953 548 0.000142203 548 -100%
1954 592 0.000148717 7 585 -98%
1955 545 0.000135738 545 -100%
1956 558 0.000135337 6 552 -98%
1957 526 0.000125174 5 521 -98%
1958 540 0.000130627 540 -100%
1959 521 0.000125301 8 513 -97%
1960 468 0.000112668 468 -100%
1961 494 0.000119257 494 -100%
1962 487 0.000120683 5 482 -98%
1963 472 0.000119246 472 -100%
1964 496 0.000127585 496 -100%
1965 428 0.000118054 428 -100%
1966 436 0.000125444 7 429 -97%
1967 401 0.000118118 6 395 -97%
1968 427 0.000126391 427 -100%
1969 523 0.00015049 8 515 -97%
1970 575 0.000159434 6 569 -98%
1971 721 0.00021006 8 713 -98%
1972 813 0.000258671 7 806 -98%
1973 896 0.000296995 896 -100%
1974 947 0.000311513 6 941 -99%
1975 1025 0.000339472 11 1014 -98%
1976 1104 0.00036384 11 1093 -98%
1977 1277 0.000402016 13 1264 -98%
1978 1463 0.000460951 12 1451 -98%
1979 1748 0.000525398 14 1734 -98%
1980 1817 0.000527507 19 1798 -98%
1981 1845 0.000533333 9 1836 -99%
1982 1863 0.000531078 22 1841 -98%
1983 1811 0.000522906 15 1796 -98%
1984 1709 0.00048986 17 1692 -98%
1985 1683 0.000471546 10 1673 -99%
1986 1748 0.000491415 11 1737 -99%
1987 1846 0.000511979 18 1828 -98%
1988 1979 0.000535582 15 1964 -98%
1989 2218 0.000576936 8 2210 -99%
1990 2439 0.000617081 10 2429 -99%
1991 2511 0.000644629 11 2500 -99%
1992 2781 0.000723979 8 2773 -99%
1993 3227 0.000855905 13 3214 -99%
1994 3509 0.000943875 14 3495 -99%
1995 3892 0.001062762 11 3881 -99%
1996 4574 0.001254114 9 4565 -100%
1997 5155 0.001421775 10 5145 -100%
1998 5872 0.00159643 13 5859 -100%
1999 6424 0.001739099 17 6407 -99%
2000 7455 0.001972272 16 7439 -100%
2001 8215 0.002194535 15 8200 -100%
2002 8322 0.002226151 11 8311 -100%
2003 8959 0.002356194 16 8943 -100%
2004 9222 0.002413553 41 9181 -99%
2005 9148 0.00237929 21 9127 -100%
2006 9698 0.002451349 14 9684 -100%
2007 10287 0.002573241 13 10274 -100%
2008 10044 0.002555293 15 10029 -100%
2009 9579 0.002507477 12 9567 -100%
2010 9376 0.002536976 5 9371 -100%
2011 9614 0.002628362 8 9606 -100%
2012 10073 0.002754167 11 10062 -100%
2013 10140 0.002781384 7 10133 -100%
2014 10007 0.002699942 13 9994 -100%
2015 9998 0.002701496 12 9986 -100%
2016 9789 0.002668249 15 9774 -100%
2017 8903 0.002489517 12 8891 -100%
2018 8511 0.002420719 9 8502 -100%
2019 8239 0.002373713 11 8228 -100%
2020 7157 0.002142444 8 7149 -100%
2021 6982 0.002060834 6982 -100%
2022 6745 0.001993713 6745 -100%
2023 6613 0.001997164 7 6606 -100%
2024 6504 0.001954033 6 6498 -100%

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