Issey
Issey is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Issey Cross, English musician Issey Maholo, former Japanese professional footballer Issey Miyake (1938–2022), Japanese fashion designer Issey Nakajima-Farran, Canadian professional soccer player Issey Ogata, Japanese actor and comedian Issey Takahashi, Japanese actor and singer
Meaning & Origin of Issey
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Issey is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Issey Cross, English musician Issey Maholo, former Japanese professional footballer Issey Miyake (1938–2022), Japanese fashion designer Issey Nakajima-Farran, Canadian professional soccer player Issey Ogata, Japanese actor and comedian Issey Takahashi, Japanese actor and singer
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The Story of Issey
Issey first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1997, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1997: 6 births, good for #8,110 nationwide. About 65% of every Issey on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Issey last appeared in the published SSA data in 2006, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 17 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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About the name Issey
Issey is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1997 and has accumulated 17 births in the dataset. Issey's peak popularity came in 1997 when it ranked #8,110. Use the chart and map above to compare Issey's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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