Meaning not yet researched.
Ishaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 266 in 2025. Its best rank was #794 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #794 in 2019; #895 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ishaan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#895 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #794.
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Ishaan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 266 boys in 2025. Peak: #794 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 289 (2019).
In 2025, 266 US boys were named Ishaan, making it the 895th most common boys’ name of the year, up 104 places from #999 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 225 boys named Ishaan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #794, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 289. For comparison, it was #918 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ishaan in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 5,462 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,585 babies named Ishaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,619 US boys were named Ishaan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 289. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,421 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ishaan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #437 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ishan (2,737 babies since 1880), Eshan (1,214 babies since 1880), Eshaan (1,094 babies since 1880) and Izhaan (460 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Izhan, Eshaun and Ezhaan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Izhan (80), Eshaun (28), Ezhaan (26), Eeshaan (20), Eashaan (5), Ishaun (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ishaan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #437 | #362 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #529 | #581 |
| California | 51 | #583 | #553 |
| Georgia | 16 | #639 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #708 | #502 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #725 | #884 |
| Ohio | 12 | #727 | — |
| New York | 19 | #753 | #974 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #798 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #827 | #1,121 |
| Texas | 29 | #885 | #844 |
| Virginia | 7 | #916 | #757 |
| Michigan | 7 | #943 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #977 | #1,320 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,087 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 266 | #895 |
| 2024 | — | — | 225 | #999 |
| 2023 | — | — | 271 | #869 |
| 2022 | — | — | 281 | #859 |
| 2021 | — | — | 272 | #858 |
| 2020 | — | — | 269 | #846 |
| 2019 | — | — | 289 | #794 |
| 2018 | — | — | 273 | #820 |
| 2017 | — | — | 231 | #919 |
| 2016 | — | — | 242 | #897 |
| 2015 | — | — | 233 | #918 |
| 2014 | — | — | 280 | #813 |
| 2013 | — | — | 271 | #808 |
| 2012 | — | — | 234 | #893 |
| 2011 | — | — | 274 | #802 |
| 2010 | — | — | 258 | #830 |
| 2009 | — | — | 242 | #870 |
| 2008 | — | — | 249 | #854 |
| 2007 | — | — | 140 | #1,258 |
| 2006 | — | — | 130 | #1,285 |
| 2005 | — | — | 104 | #1,422 |
| 2004 | — | — | 92 | #1,477 |
| 2003 | — | — | 62 | #1,893 |
| 2002 | — | — | 68 | #1,712 |
| 2001 | — | — | 80 | #1,516 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,069 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,897 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,002 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,850 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,583 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,659 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,377 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,954 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,646 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).