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Iskandar

Boys' name

To defend + man, through Alexander

Iskandar has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2020, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Iskandar, 2020

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iskandar: meaning, origin, and history

To defend + man, through Alexander

Ancient Greek, Arabic and Persian

What Iskandar means

Iskandar belongs to the name family reached through Iskandar → Alexander. Its meaning is “to defend + man”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic الْإِسْكَنْدَر (al-ʔiskandar, “Alexander”). Doublet of Alexander

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Iskandar is used in English, Indonesian and Malay. Its origins include Ancient Greek, Arabic and Persian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexander.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Iskandar is pronounced /isˈkandar/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Iskandar between 2010 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2020; its best national rank was #11,130 in 2020.

How common is Iskandar?

Iskandar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iskandar 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iskandar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iskandars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iskandar was born before 2017 — so the typical Iskandar is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Iskandar 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (6)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,130
2020

Iskandar around the world

Where Iskandar 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
    2020–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1983–2025
    #6,684
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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

Iskandar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,130
2020
Peak year
2020
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iskandar

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

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Sibling names for Iskandar

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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