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Ishan

#1,877 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ishan has been given to 2,737 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,877 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 148 recorded.

Babies named Ishan, 2025

1 in 39,500

Ishan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ishan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ishan means

Ishan is a given name.

The naming story behind Ishan

Wikidata records Ishan as a given name. The entity identifier is Q91918576, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,737 boys were recorded with the name Ishan between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 148 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,214 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,902 in 2020 to #1,877 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,470 in 2015 to #1,877 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ishan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,500
84 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,877
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,357 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ishan 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,357 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ishan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ishans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ishan was born before 2011 — so the typical Ishan is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,737
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (1,048).

Is Ishan 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
+246
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+25
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−407
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.8%
Peak was 2009 (148)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,214
2009

Spellings of Ishan

Ishan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 20.1% against Ishan's 0.11%.

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 Ishan is used

Across 2016–2025, Ishan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 18,257 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 6,667
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Texas1 in 16,667
  4. 4Washington1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6New York1 in 20,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 25,000

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.

Ishan around the world

Where Ishan 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2025
    #1,931
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Ishan

People whose public names include Ishan, 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.

Ishan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,877
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 25
Best rank ever
#1,214
2009
Peak year
2009
148 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,737
Count in 2025
84

Names similar to Ishan

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

IshaqIshaanAthanYohanRehanEshanSohanFarhanIshmaelRoshanJahanLathanDathanJathanRohanIshamZohanGohanAahanEathanVihanJohanEythanKishan

Names with a curve like Ishan

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

CanonHagenJahirLeytonZavionFilipTahaDevSiddharthArmaanKellerBrighton

Sibling names for Ishan

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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