Ishaq
Ishaq was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,813 among boys’ names; 708 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ishaq by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ishaq mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ishaq is “a male given name.”
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْحَاق (ʔisḥāq). Doublet of Isaac.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ishaq?
#2,813 among boys’ names, 2025
Ishaq rose from #3,046 in 2015 to #2,813 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 26.3 per million.
45 babies in 2025, the peak
Ishaq peaked in 2025, when 45 boys were given it, #2,813 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 41 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,813 | 26.3 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,013 | 23.8 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,024 | 24.0 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,431 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,382 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,858 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,217 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,563 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,409 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,388 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,046 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,113 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,897 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,181 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,150 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,156 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,395 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,588 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,030 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,031 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,321 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,866 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,127 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,718 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,226 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,142 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,903 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,844 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,702 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,106 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,035 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,443 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,834 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,515 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,950 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,410 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ishaq a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ishaq has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ishaq: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ishaq, and how old are they?
An estimated 699 Americans named Ishaq and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 665 people named Ishaq (6 women and girls, 659 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 487 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% 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.
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 Ishaq born?
The states with the most babies named Ishaq are New York, Michigan and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #814 | 2.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,175 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,092 | 0.5× |
Where Ishaq is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ishaq is most over-represented in New York: since 1977 it was given 2.4 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 Ishaq 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 871 babies since 1880, Ishaq is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 54 babies (83%), 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 Ishaq
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 Ishaq and names like it
- Compare Ishaq and IshaaqBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIshaq peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ishaq since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ishaq.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ishaq alive today were born 2013-2025.
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