Ishaq
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Prophet, the biblical Isaac and son of Prophet Ibrahim
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ishaq is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.7K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 12K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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(measured from records)
a Prophet, the biblical Isaac and son of Prophet Ibrahim. gsatlall ge Ls Glauh ob tay. "We gave him
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ishaq 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #74 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 4 | Ishaq | 105 |
| NG Nigeria | #324 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Ishaq | 62 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Ishaq | 97 |
| BD Bangladesh | #392 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Ishaque | 39 |
| AF Afghanistan | #877 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Ishaq | 16 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #581 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ishaq | 59 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #274 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Ishaq | 73 |
| NO Norway | — | 318 | 1 in 17K | 318 | — | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | #224 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Ishaq | 12 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ishaq is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Isaac
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In German, ) Ishak [is'ha:k]: männl. Vom., arabische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Azerbaijani, a male given name from Arabic إِسْحَاق (ʔisḥāq) [in turn from Hebrew יצחק], equivalent to English Isaac
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacques Ishaqb. 1938IQChaldean archbishop
- Mohammad Ishaqb. 1963PKcricketer
- Mir Tahir Ishaqb. 1985PKbadminton player
- Bushra Ishaqb. 1985NONorwegian scientist
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(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 318 | #4,772 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 4 | #194 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Ishaq come from?
- a Prophet, the biblical Isaac and son of Prophet Ibrahim. gsatlall ge Ls Glauh ob tay. "We gave him Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What does the name Ishaq mean?
- Recorded meaning: a Prophet, the biblical Isaac and son of Prophet Ibrahim.
- In which country does Ishaq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Ishaq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ishaq.
- How common is the name Ishaq?
- In Norway, the national register counted 318 people named Ishaq, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Ishaq compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ishaq is the 74th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ishaqThe 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, “Ishaq” — the 74th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.