Ishaq
Ishaq is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 2,798th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,798th. About 700 Ishaqs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ishaq
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 708
- Estimated living today
- 700
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 2,798th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,798th
- First recorded
- 1977
How old the living Ishaqs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 708 babies given the name since 1977, about 700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
. Doublet of Isaac.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ishaqs
- Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh (778–853)muhaddith and Hafiz
- Ishaq ibn Hunayn (830–910)physician
- Ishaq ibn ʿAli (1110–1147)Almoravid Emir (ruled 1147; died 1147)
- Ishaq al-Mawsili (772–850)Arab musician of Persian origin (767/772 – 850)
- Ishaq Dar (born 1950)Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
People named Ishaq with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ishaq is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ishaq is most concentrated in New York (7.8×), Michigan (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Ishaq peaked:
Ishaq elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ishaq +2 spellings | 2,830 | 220th |
| England and Wales boys | Ishaq +1 spelling | 1,209 | 566th |
| Belgium boys | Ishaq | 474 | 198th |
| Scotland boys | Ishaq | 6 | 648th |
| Ireland boys | Ishaq | 3 | 829th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ishaq: rank by region
In 2025, Ishaq was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ishaq | 220 | 27 |
| Wallonia | Ishaq | 267 | 10 |
| Brussels | Ishaq | 60 | 16 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ishaq appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (60th), Province of Antwerp (94th), Province of Flemish Brabant (177th) and Province of Liège (183rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ishaq among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ishaq | 12 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ishaq lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 589 men called Ishaq were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Ishaq | 41 | 0.973 | 177 |
| Melilla | Ishaq | 14 | 0.320 | 386 |
| Girona | Ishaq | 36 | 0.086 | 839 |
| Tarragona | Ishaq | 27 | 0.062 | 1,070 |
| Lleida | Ishaq | 12 | 0.051 | 1,241 |
| Almería | Ishaq | 17 | 0.043 | 1,358 |
Listed in 24 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 28 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ishaq against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.