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Ishaan

#895 in 2025Boys' name

Ishana

Ishaan has been given to 5,462 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #895 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 289 recorded.

Babies named Ishaan, 2025

1 in 12,500

Ishaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ishaan: meaning, origin, and history

Ishana

Sanskrit

What Ishaan means

Ishaan means “Ishana”, associated with īśāna.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sanskrit ईशान (īśāna, “Ishana”), a Hindu deity and guardian of the northeast direction.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ishaan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ishaan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Ishaan comes through Sanskrit ईशान.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,462 boys were recorded with the name Ishaan between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 289 in 2019; its best national rank was #794 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #846 in 2020 to #895 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #918 in 2015 to #895 in 2025.

How common is Ishaan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,500
266 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,420
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#895
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ishaan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ishaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ishaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ishaan was born before 2015 — so the typical Ishaan is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,462
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (2,585).

Is Ishaan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+104
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−49
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+23
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.0%
Peak was 2019 (289)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#794
2019

Spellings of Ishaan

Ishaan is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 44.4% against Ishaan's 0.73%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ishaan is used

Across 2016–2025, Ishaan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,128 boys, against 1 in 5,258 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 33,333).

347 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,128
  2. 2Washington1 in 2,778
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 3,333
  4. 4California1 in 3,571
  5. 5Maryland1 in 4,167
  6. 6Illinois1 in 4,348
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 5,263
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 5,263

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ishaan around the world

Where Ishaan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #487
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2020
    #599
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2025
    #1,707
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ishaan

People whose public names include Ishaan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ishaan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#895
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 49
Best rank ever
#794
2019
Peak year
2019
289 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,462
Count in 2025
266

Names similar to Ishaan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ishaan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ishaan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DamariYaelKamrynKooperBodeKalelFisherYadielThatcherCasenRaydenCoen

Sibling names for Ishaan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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