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Iskander

#11,185 in 2025Boys' name

To defend + man, through Iskandar

Iskander has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #11,185 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Iskander, 2025

1 in 553,000

Iskander over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iskander: meaning, origin, and history

To defend + man, through Iskandar

Ancient Greek and Arabic

What Iskander means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic الإسْكَنْدَر (al-ʔiskandar, “Alexander”). This surname is mostly found among Copts in Egypt. Doublet of Alexander

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Iskander is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iskandar and Alexander.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Iskander is pronounced /ɪˈskæn.dəɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 boys were recorded with the name Iskander between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2009; its best national rank was #6,565 in 2009.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,218 in 2015 to #11,185 in 2025.

How common is Iskander?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,185
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iskander 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iskander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iskanders were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.2% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Iskander 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+33
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2009 (13)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,565
2009

Spellings of Iskander

Iskander is not the most common spelling — Sander is, with 95.3% against Iskander's 4.7%.

  • Sander95.3%1,588
  • Iskander4.7%79

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 Iskander is used

Across 1910–2025, Iskander was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Iskander has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Iskander around the world

Where Iskander 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
    2006–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1978–2025
    #2,149
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Iskander by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,185
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,565
2009
Peak year
2009
13 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Iskander

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

IskenderOleanderLyzanderLexanderSnayderFielderSneyderLisanderCaulderOlivanderRavinderIsanderKaulderIskandarAlyxanderArlanderSladerSneijderJeyderAvanderLyxanderWryderYeiderAlxander

Sibling names for Iskander

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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