Ishika
Ishika was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,862 among girls’ names; 1,092 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Ishika 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 Ishika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ishika?
#3,862 among girls’ names, 2025
Ishika rose from #4,252 in 2015 to #3,862 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.0 to 23.6 per million.
72 babies in 2001, the peak
Ishika peaked in 2001, when 72 girls were given it, #2,243 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,862 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,903 | 35.2 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,865 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,503 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,233 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,246 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,247 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,625 | 38.8 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,071 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,952 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,252 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,611 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,104 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,669 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,433 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,539 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,523 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,446 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,410 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,297 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,626 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,425 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,620 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,027 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,243 | 40.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,121 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ishika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ishika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ishika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ishika, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,092 Americans ever recorded as Ishika. The median Ishika alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 913 people named Ishika (905 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 801 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 471 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 612 |
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 Ishika born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,844 | 0.9× |
| California | 7 | #2,599 | 1.2× |
Where Ishika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ishika is most over-represented in California: since 2000 it was given 1.2 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 Ishika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ishika
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 Ishika and names like it
- Compare Ishika and AnayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIshika peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ishika since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Ishika.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ishika alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.