Ishan
Ishan was given to 84 boys in 2025, #1,877 among boys’ names; 2,737 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,700 Americans named Ishan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ishan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ishan?
#1,877 among boys’ names, 2025
Ishan fell from #1,470 in 2015 to #1,877 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 59.5 to 49.2 per million.
148 babies in 2009, the peak
Ishan peaked in 2009, when 148 boys were given it, #1,214 among boys’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #1,877 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,123 | 40.6 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,053 | 42.7 |
| 2022 | 81 | #1,925 | 46.4 |
| 2021 | 90 | #1,775 | 51.4 |
| 2020 | 78 | #1,902 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 83 | #1,831 | 46.3 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,612 | 56.2 |
| 2017 | 89 | #1,741 | 48.1 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,493 | 60.1 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 114 | #1,470 | 59.5 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,507 | 55.7 |
| 2013 | 92 | #1,650 | 48.6 |
| 2012 | 93 | #1,661 | 49.0 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,348 | 66.3 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,335 | 66.7 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,214 | 74.6 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,402 | 59.3 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,687 | 43.4 |
| 2006 | 94 | #1,566 | 45.7 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,434 | 51.6 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,386 | 51.9 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,615 | 39.5 |
| 2002 | 82 | #1,518 | 42.2 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,416 | 45.3 |
| 2000 | 71 | #1,642 | 36.2 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,112 | 23.4 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,519 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,635 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,237 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,606 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,655 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,442 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,148 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,679 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,709 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,345 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,420 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,144 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,937 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ishan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ishan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ishan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ishan, and how old are they?
2,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,737 Americans ever recorded as Ishan. The median Ishan alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,997 people named Ishan (60 women and girls, 2,937 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,257 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 121 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ishan born?
The states with the most babies named Ishan are California, Texas and New York, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,171 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,374 | 0.8× |
| New York | 6 | #1,643 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,091 | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,366 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,359 | 0.5× |
Where Ishan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ishan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1982 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ishan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,199 babies since 1880, Ishan is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 350 babies (24%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ishan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ishan and names like it
- Compare Ishan and IshaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIshan peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ishan since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Ishan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ishan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.