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Ishani

#2,569 in 2025Girls' name

Ruling, possessing

Ishani has been given to 1,250 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #2,569 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Ishani, 2025

1 in 48,800

Ishani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ishani: meaning, origin, and history

Ruling, possessing

Sanskrit

What Ishani means

Ishani means “ruling, possessing”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ishani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,250 girls were recorded with the name Ishani between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,569 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,798 in 2020 to #2,569 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,977 in 2015 to #2,569 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ishani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,800
68 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,569
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,794 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ishani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 33,794 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ishani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ishanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ishani was born before 2014 — so the typical Ishani is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,250
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (510).

Is Ishani 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
+567
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+229
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+408
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (68)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,569
2025

Spellings of Ishani

Ishani is not the most common spelling — Shari is, with 26.3% against Ishani's 0.80%.

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 Ishani is used

Across 2016–2025, Ishani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 34,629 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 20,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Ishani around the world

Where Ishani 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
    1997–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    2013–2023
    #4,730
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,151
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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.

Ishani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,569
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 229
Best rank ever
#2,569
2025
Peak year
2025
68 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,250
Count in 2025
68

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Sibling names for Ishani

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