Given name
Issey
“a gift of Isis”
Issey is a variant of Isidore. One Greek interpretation is “a gift of Isis.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Issey is a variant of Isidore. One Greek interpretation is “a gift of Isis.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Issey is a variant of Isidore. An origin associated with Isidore is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Issey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Issey
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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