In 2025, 45 US boys were named Ishaq, making it the 2,814th most common boys’ name of the year, up 200 places from #3,014 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 41 boys named Ishaq in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,814, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #3,047 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ishaq in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 708 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 295 babies named Ishaq.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 355 US boys were named Ishaq; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,957 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ishaq ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #814 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.