Izaya
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- eye-ZY-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Izaya is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is salvation”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Izaya mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Izayah, itself a spelling of Isaiah
“God is salvation”
Meaning borrowed from Izayah.
Is Izaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Izaya is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Izaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,675th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Izaya, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,694th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 81 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had fewer boys named Izaya than any year since 1997.
Half of all the boys named Izaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 5,946 boys in the US were given Izaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #57, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
Izaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,063 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,109 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,438 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,932 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,694 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,896 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,101 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,523 |
| 2015 | 25 | #4,078 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,088 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,713 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,516 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,546 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,286 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,701 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,373 |
| 2007 | 70 | #1,995 |
| 2006 | 81 | #1,724 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,429 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,020 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,265 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,151 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,515 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,252 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,661 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,848 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,275 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,528 |
Names like Izaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ibrahim, Musa, Hamza, Muhammad, Zamir, Mustafa, Abdullah, Zahir, Zayd, Nazir, Ahmad, Asaiah
Other spellings of Izaya
Names related to Izaya
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Izaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/izaya, updated 20 October 2026.