The name Ishaan goes back to the Sanskrit word meaning ‘sun’ or ‘sunlight’. It is derived from Ishana, a Hindu god and the guardian of the northeast direction. In the US, Ishaan is used as a first name since the 1990s.
Ishaan is a male first name.
The name Ishaan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Ishaan ranks 788. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Ishaan. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ishaan.
The name Ishaan goes back to the Sanskrit word meaning ‘sun’ or ‘sunlight’. It is derived from Ishana, a Hindu god and the guardian of the northeast direction. In the US, Ishaan is used as a first name since the 1990s.
Ishaan' is the title of... a Teen sitcom from 2010/2011, produced by Disney Channel India. After its release, Ishaan also became a little more popular in the US.
The odds that a man or boy named Ishaan lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Ishaan in 22 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Ishaan live in New Jersey – here, one in 10,076 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 43,755 will turn around if you call his first name Ishaan.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Ishaan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.
If your name is Ishaan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ishaan, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Apple
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ishaan
Ishaan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
S
H
A
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
S
H
A
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ishaan sounds like this:
