Island is an English word name that means simply "island", a piece of land surrounded by water; the word goes back to Old English iegland and gained its silent s only through confusion with the French isle. As a first name it belongs with Ocean, River and Sky, nature names that suggest calm and distance from everyday life. In the United States Island was almost unknown in 2000 at number 10207; it moved up to number 2593 in 2024 and held that rank in 2025 with 67 girls.