Ishàq

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ishàq is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname. Ishàq is also written ইশাক in Bengali and ଇସାକ in Odia.

  • PKPakistan≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 4.3K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 7Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ishàq itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈66,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
193 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Ishàq in other scripts: Bengali and Odia

(measured from records)
IshàqLatin(measured from records)
ইশাকIshàq in Bengali(measured from records)
ଇସାକIshàq in Odia(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ishaq in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria, ID Indonesia and 4 more and Ishaque in BD Bangladesh.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Ishàq is found

(measured from records)

Ishàq counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ishàq is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#74≈66,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K4Ishaq105
NG Nigeria#324≈54,000 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Ishaq62
ID Indonesia—≈7,400 est.≈1 in 38K—Ishaq97
AF Afghanistan#877≈3,200 est.≈1 in 13K1Ishaq16
BD Bangladesh#392≈3,100 est.≈1 in 56K—Ishaque39
SA Saudi Arabia#581≈2,800 est.≈1 in 13K—Ishaq59
AE United Arab Emirates#274≈1,600 est.≈1 in 7K—Ishaq73
NO Norway—3181 in 17K318—15
BH Bahrain#224≈230 est.≈1 in 7K—Ishaq12

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ishàq under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ishàq a male or female name?
Ishàq 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.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Ishàq?
Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Ishàq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ishaq. After it come Nigeria, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Ishàq?
In Norway, the national register counted 318 people named Ishàq, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Ishàq compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Ishàq is the 74th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Ishàq” — ranked 194th in Pakistan (Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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