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Ishaq

#2,813 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Isaac

Ishaq has been given to 708 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #2,813 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Ishaq, 2025

1 in 73,700

Ishaq over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ishaq: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Isaac

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ishaq means

Ishaq is a form of Isaac.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ishaq → Isaac. The family’s proposed meaning is “he laughs, he will laugh”, recorded in English with the source elements Yiṣḥāq.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْحَاق (ʔisḥāq). Doublet of Isaac.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ishaq is used in English.

Ishaq comes through Arabic إِسْحَاق.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isaac.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 708 boys were recorded with the name Ishaq between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,813 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,858 in 2020 to #2,813 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,046 in 2015 to #2,813 in 2025.

How common is Ishaq?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,813
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ishaq 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ishaq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ishaqs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ishaq was born before 2016 — so the typical Ishaq is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
708
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (295).

Is Ishaq 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
+200
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,045
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+233
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (45)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,813
2025

Spellings of Ishaq

Ishaq is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 75.9% against Ishaq's 0.16%.

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 Ishaq is used

Across 1910–2025, Ishaq was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 411,675 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

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. Ishaq has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ishaq around the world

Where Ishaq 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
    #679
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2025
    #218
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

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

Ishaq by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,813
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,045
Best rank ever
#2,813
2025
Peak year
2025
45 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
708
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Ishaq

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

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Sibling names for Ishaq

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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