Ishan
- #1,867 for boys in 2025, 84 births
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 148 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,737since 1982
Ishan over time
Rank among boys' names. Ishan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,867 | 84 |
| 2024 | #2,120 | 70 |
| 2023 | #2,047 | 73 |
| 2022 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #1,770 | 90 |
| 2020 | #1,895 | 78 |
| 2019 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #1,606 | 102 |
| 2017 | #1,735 | 89 |
| 2016 | #1,491 | 114 |
| 2015 | #1,468 | 114 |
| 2014 | #1,506 | 107 |
| 2013 | #1,647 | 92 |
| 2012 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2011 | #1,344 | 126 |
| 2010 | #1,331 | 128 |
| 2009 | #1,214 | 148 |
| 2008 | #1,399 | 121 |
| 2007 | #1,681 | 90 |
| 2006 | #1,562 | 94 |
| 2005 | #1,431 | 103 |
| 2004 | #1,384 | 103 |
| 2003 | #1,611 | 78 |
| 2002 | #1,514 | 82 |
| 2001 | #1,415 | 88 |
| 2000 | #1,641 | 71 |
| 1999 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #2,507 | 34 |
| 1997 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #3,202 | 22 |
| 1995 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ishan! It came in at #5,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ishan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#1,022 · 1 in 7,953
- California#1,150 · 1 in 10,322
- Ohio#1,267 · 1 in 10,507
- Illinois#1,280 · 1 in 9,910
- Texas#1,347 · 1 in 12,504
Best ever in a state: #408 in New Jersey, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,022 | 5 | 1 in 7,953 |
| California | #1,150 | 17 | 1 in 10,322 |
| Ohio | #1,267 | 5 | 1 in 10,507 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| Texas | #1,347 | 14 | 1 in 12,504 |
| New York | #1,576 | 6 | 1 in 14,070 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ishan
- 28 spots since 2020 (#1,895 → #1,867)
- 399 spots since 2015 (#1,468 → #1,867)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2009 at #1,214 (148 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,403 boys born in 2009 were named Ishan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,334 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.3% of all boys named Ishan (1,048) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 23 | #5,619 (1982) | #6,343 |
| 1990s | 212 | #2,098 (1999) | #3,884 |
| 2000s | 978 | #1,214 (2009) | #1,485 |
| 2010s | 1,048 | #1,331 (2010) | #1,561 |
| 2020s | 476 | #1,770 (2021) | #1,936 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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