Ishani
Ishani was given to 68 girls in 2025, #2,569 among girls’ names; 1,250 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Ishani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ishani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ishani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ishani is “a female given name from Sanskrit.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ishani?
#2,569 among girls’ names, 2025
Ishani rose from #2,977 in 2015 to #2,569 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 32.5 to 42.3 per million.
68 babies in 2025, the peak
Ishani peaked in 2025, when 68 girls were given it, #2,569 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 51 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,569 | 42.3 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,136 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,916 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,669 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,048 | 32.9 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,798 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,524 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,023 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,982 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,118 | 29.9 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,977 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,658 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,196 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,076 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,372 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,591 | 24.8 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,969 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,215 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,607 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,196 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,003 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,123 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,902 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,542 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,049 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,913 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,967 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,488 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,711 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,300 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,340 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,704 | 6.1 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,117 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ishani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ishani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ishani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ishani, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,250 Americans ever recorded as Ishani. The median Ishani alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,105 people named Ishani (1,103 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 926 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 33 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 498 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 709 |
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 Ishani born?
The states with the most babies named Ishani are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,879 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,111 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,081 | 1.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,218 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,485 | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,128 | 0.2× |
Where Ishani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ishani is most over-represented in California: since 1989 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Ishani 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,734 babies since 1880, Ishani is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 86 babies (79%), again the 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 Ishani
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 Ishani and names like it
- Compare Ishani and IshanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIshani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ishani since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Ishani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ishani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ishani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.