Izayah
Masculine · “the Lord is salvation”
Izayah is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,269 boys against 7 girls since 1880.
Izayah respells Isaiah, and the prophet's Hebrew name is a complete sentence — the Lord is salvation, the same statement inside Joshua.
How old is the name Izayah?
Izayah first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Izayah alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 4,200 people named Izayah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Izayah most popular?
Izayah peaked in 2011, reaching #816 nationally. Today it ranks #1778, 962 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yeshayahu to Izayah
The story of Izayah
Isaiah is the longest of the prophetic books and the most quoted in the New Testament; the Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran is the oldest complete biblical manuscript, a thousand years older than any other. Isaiah rose sharply in American naming from the 1990s, and Izayah appears in the registers in the 2000s in current use.
Meaning
the Lord is salvation
Through Isaiah, from the Hebrew Yeshayahu — yasha, 'to save', and Yahu, the divine name. It is a complete statement rather than a word. The Hebrew is ordinary and the reading undisputed; the z spelling is a modern American variation.
How the name formed
- Yeshayahu
- Isaiah
- Izayah
Related forms: Isaiah · Isaías · Yeshayahu
Pronouncing Izayah
eye-ZAY-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Izayah and Isaiah are said identically.
Nicknames for Izayah
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
- 1994
- Most boys named
- 2011267 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #816reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −10.0%90 in 2025, from 100
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.
Izayah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Isaiah in English — spelling variant
- Isaías in Spanish — related form
- Yeshayahu in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Izayahs among us
people named Izayah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 18,979 born in 2025 was named Izayah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Izayah
- #1778
- Izayah on the 2025 chart
- #53
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Izayah went to 90 boys in 2025, but Isaiah and Izaiah are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 5,836, which makes it the 53rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,725 places above the chart.
and 5 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 293 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,979 for Izayah 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 Burnell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Izayah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Burnell climbed just as high around 1920, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Burnell's path sketches the road Izayah is walking now.
Izayah 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 Izayah is headed
Izayah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Izayah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Izayah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a complete statement and is undisputed.
- The Qumran scroll behind the book is a genuinely remarkable object.
- Zay and Izzy are two short forms, both with real currency.
- Isaiah is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- Several respellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It will be corrected to Isaiah by other people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Izayahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,200 people named Izayah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Izayah?
- Izayah is one of 3 recorded spellings. Isaiah is the more common one — 5,267 births in 2025 against 90 for Izayah.
- How popular is the name Izayah in 2025?
- Izayah ranks #1778 among US boy names in 2025, with 90 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Izayah?
- About 1 in every 18,979 US boys born in 2025 was named Izayah — 90 in all.
- Will my child share the name Izayah with classmates?
- Izayah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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