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Ishaan vs Ishvik

American parents have registered 5,462 Ishaans since 1880, against 31 Ishviks. Ishaan is still ahead, with 266 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ishaan against Ishvik, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ishaan Ishvik

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ishaan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Ishaan had 266 and Ishvik had 31.

Side by side

  Ishaan Ishvik
Total US births 5,46231
Most in one year 28931
Babies in 2025 26631
Estimated living today 5,40030
Median age today 100
Peak year 20192025
Best rank 794th boys3,583rd boys
Rank in 2025 893rd3,583rd
First recorded 19902025
Girls / boys 0 / 5,4620 / 31

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ishaans alive today are over 10; half the Ishviks have not had a first birthday. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ishaan Ishvik
England and Wales 1,3854

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ishaan and Ishvik.