Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1990–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
More children were named Ishaan in 2019 than in any other year — 289 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1990. Ishaan has ranked inside the top 1,000 in 18 years.
As of 2025 the name sits at #893, with 266 births that year. Year on year the rank improved by 105.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Ishaan?
An estimated 5,400 living Americans are called Ishaan. That is out of 5,462 recorded births since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Ishaan?
Half of living Ishaans are older than 10, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Ishaan a current name.
Your Ishaan
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Ishaan is most common
Ishaan is 3.3× as common in New Jersey as it is nationally. Washington, Massachusetts and California follow.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Ishaan is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.