Ishan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ishan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ishan: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #676, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#676highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1458
1997	#2022
1998	#2901
1999	#1383
2000	#1096
2001	#1027
2002	#993
2003	#1011
2004	#970
2005	#747
2006	#1224
2007	#1079
2008	#850
2009	#944
2010	#774
2011	#1024
2012	#1119
2013	#1339
2014	#854
2015	#1095
2016	#1187
2017	#1398
2018	#1235
2019	#1369
2020	#1548
2021	#1448
2022	#1469
2023	#1701
2024	#1675

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1701 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1458 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2023–2025
Highest recorded position: #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2023–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ishan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 565 births with the name.

Ishan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ishan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1458 (1996)	#747 (2005)	#1675 (2024)	29 of 29	565 (1996–2024)	38 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#770 (2023)	#676 (2025)	#676 (2025)	2 of 3	7 (2023–2025)	4 (2025)

Ishan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ishan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	216	10 of 10	22
2010sbusiest	246	10 of 10	25
2020s	78	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 25 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ishan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #676 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Ishan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1675	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1469	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1235	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1187	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1095	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#854	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1119	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1024	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#944	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#850	32	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1079	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#747	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#970	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1011	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#993	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1027	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #676, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2023, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ishaaq · #740, 27y
Ishak · #2174, 23y
Ishana · #2862, 21y
Ishani · #736, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Fatoumata · #677, 26y
Giselle · #677, 29y
Maha · #677, 29y
Neda · #677, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alyx · #677, 19y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Enola · #677, 23y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y

Ishan was ranked #676 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ishan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ishan without appearing here.

Ishan moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #5119.
Maddison Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1096 and #3036.
Ole Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1383 and #1383 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1096 and #3036.
Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2901 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1383 and #2943.

Moved ahead of Ishan

Arlo Compare
In 2005 they stood at #747 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1224 and #582.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1448 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1469 and #967.
Harper Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1469 and #1609 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1701 and #1207.
Hudson Compare
In 2005 they stood at #747 and #982 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1224 and #885.

Moved the opposite way to Ishan

Ole Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ishan went from #2901 to #1469 while Ole went from #2901 to #4789.
Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Ishan went from #2022 to #1095 while Morten went from #2859 to #4747.
Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ishan went from #1079 to #1675 while Matheo went from #4333 to #1517.

Moved the same way as Ishan

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ishan went from #993 to #1675 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #676 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ishan

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ishan across 2 official records

Ishan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ishan across 2 official records

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