Isamar
Feminine
Isamar is given to both — 2,437 girls and 91 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Isamar is a Latin American name with a Hebrew near-neighbor: Itamar, a son of Aaron in the book of Exodus, whose name means the island of palms. Whether the two are connected is not recorded.
How old is the name Isamar?
Isamar first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Isamar alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 2,400 people named Isamar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Isamar most popular?
Isamar peaked in 1990, reaching #531 nationally. Today it ranks #3296, 2,765 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Isamar
Our reading rather than the record's. Isamar has the shape of a name built in Spanish and the sound of one much older. The mar at the end is the Spanish word for the sea, and Spanish-speaking families hear it whether or not it was put there on purpose. On the other side stands Itamar, a genuine biblical name about a coastline of palm trees. Between a real sea and a real coast, the name is well provided for even without a documented parent — and the Latin American families who use it have made it thoroughly their own.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for this spelling. The nearest documented name is Hebrew Itamar, read as island or coast of palms, borne by a son of Aaron. A second reading takes the name as a Spanish blend of Isa and mar, the sea. Neither is confirmed.
Pronouncing Isamar
ee-sah-MAR
Three syllables with the stress at the end in Spanish. English speakers usually say IS-uh-mar.
Nicknames for Isamar
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 1990447 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #531reached in 1990
- Change vs 2024
- −9.6%47 in 2025, from 52
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Isamar in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Itamar in Hebrew — related form
- Ismar in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Isamars among us
people named Isamar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,197 born in 2025 was named Isamar
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Isamar
- #3296
- Isamar on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Isamar went to 47 girls in 2025, but Izamar is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 900th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,396 places above the chart.
- Isamar47
- Izamar13
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,197 for Isamar itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Antonette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Isamar's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Antonette climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Antonette's path sketches the road Isamar is walking now.
Isamar sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Isamar is headed
Isamar looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 30% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Isamar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Isamar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Isa and Mar are both complete names in Spanish, so it carries two inside it.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- It ends on a consonant, which is unusual and distinctive among Spanish women's names.
- The stress falls at the end in Spanish and at the front in English, so two versions will follow her.
- Isamar, Ismar and Izamar all appear and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning, only two plausible neighbors.
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Frequently asked
- How many Isamars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Isamar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Isamar?
- Isamar is the most-used spelling in US records — 47 of the 60 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Izamar.
- How popular is the name Isamar in 2025?
- Isamar ranks #3296 among US girl names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Isamar?
- About 1 in every 34,197 US girls born in 2025 was named Isamar — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Isamar with classmates?
- Isamar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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