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Ishan vs Ishanvi

American parents have registered 2,737 Ishans since 1880, against 615 Ishanvis. Ishan is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ishan against Ishanvi, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ishan Ishanvi

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

Ishan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Ishan had 83 and Ishanvi had 66.

Side by side

  Ishan Ishanvi
Total US births 2,737615
Most in one year 14866
Babies in 2025 8438
Estimated living today 2,700610
Median age today 146
Peak year 20092019
Best rank 1,214th boys2,632nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,867th3,832nd
First recorded 19822007
Girls / boys 0 / 2,737615 / 0

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 Ishans alive today are over 14; half the Ishanvis are over 6. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Ishan Ishanvi
England and Wales 57861

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: Ishan and Ishanvi.