Ishan
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ishan is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Sri Lanka it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: One of the aspects of the god Shiva.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 1.2K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 76K
- INIndia1 in 82K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 193 ●
- 1 in 111K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
38K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled I-Shan in TW Taiwan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
One of the aspects of the god Shiva.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 39,669 | 22K rec. | — | 9 | Ishan | 175 |
| US United States | — | 2,937 | 6.1K rec. | 1 in 113K | 2.9K | Ishan | 193 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,517 | 1.5K rec. | — | 3 | Ishan | 85 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #80 | 1,235 | 4.1K rec. | — | — | Ishan | 55 |
| CA Canada | — | 909 | 414 rec. | — | 1 | Ishan | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 727 | 492 rec. | — | listed | Ishan | 65 |
| FR France | — | 581 | 309 rec. | — | — | Ishan | 76 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 420 | 322 rec. | — | — | Ishan | 14 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | 261 | 375 rec. | — | — | Ishan | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | 236 | 214 rec. | — | 1 | Ishan | 56 |
| BR Brazil | — | 191△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 199 | Ishan | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 186 | 151 rec. | — | — | Ishan | 47 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi35K57%
- English8.2K13%
- 2.9K5%
- Sinhala1.9K3%
- Turkish1.6K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 35,422 | 57% |
| English | 8,201 | 13% |
| 2,924 | 5% | |
| Sinhala | 1,904 | 3% |
| Turkish | 1,585 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ishan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hindi, a direction
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 21 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 18 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 22 |
| 1997 | 30 |
| 1998 | 34 |
| 1999 | 45 |
| 2000 | 71 |
| 2001 | 88 |
| 2002 | 82 |
| 2003 | 78 |
| 2004 | 103 |
| 2005 | 103 |
| 2006 | 94 |
| 2007 | 90 |
| 2008 | 121 |
| 2009 | 148 |
| 2010 | 128 |
| 2011 | 126 |
| 2012 | 93 |
| 2013 | 92 |
| 2014 | 107 |
| 2015 | 114 |
| 2016 | 114 |
| 2017 | 89 |
| 2018 | 102 |
| 2019 | 83 |
| 2020 | 78 |
| 2021 | 90 |
| 2022 | 81 |
| 2023 | 73 |
| 2024 | 70 |
| 2025 | 84 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1982–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ishan Sharmab. 1978INPh.D. Cornell University 2004
- Ishan Davéb. 1989CACanadian actor
- Ishan Kishanb. 1998INIndian cricketer
- Ishan MorrisCACanadian actor and singer
- Ishan Kumar ChatterjeeCHPhD Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies
- Ishan MitraINIndian singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 236 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ishan?
- We estimate roughly 3.4 thousand people bear Ishan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ishan have the most bearers?
- Ishan is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ishan.
- How common is Ishan compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Ishan is the 80th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Ishan a male or female name?
- Ishan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ishan mean?
- Recorded meaning: One of the aspects of the god Shiva.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ishan” — the 80th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.