Ishan
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One of the aspects of the god Shiva
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪʃən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ishan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 81st most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 644(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 111K
- NPNepal≈1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 644 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled I-Shan in TW Taiwan.
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(measured from records)
One of the aspects of the god Shiva.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Ishan is read(measured from records)
Ishan is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi58%
a direction
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- English14%
One of the aspects of the god Shiva.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ishan 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #81 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 644 | — | Ishan | 60 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Ishan | 27 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Ishan | 38 |
| US United States | — | 2,997 | 1 in 111K | 2.9K | Ishan | 226 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Ishan | 14 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | I-Shan | 25 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Ishan | 22 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.9K | #5,644 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 84 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 60 | #5,644 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ishan mean, and where does it come from?
- One of the aspects of the god Shiva. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Ishan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪʃən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Ishan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Ishan in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ishan.
- How common is the name Ishan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,997 people named Ishan in 2020, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Ishan compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Ishan is the 81st most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ishan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ishanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ishan” — the 81st most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.