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The first name 
Ishaq

Ishaq is a male first name.

When two boys called Ishaq meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ishaq is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Ishaq. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ishaq is #3,038 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ishaq.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ishaq

Ishaq -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Ishaq did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Ishaq seemed to be more popular than ever in 2015. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,780, 37 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Ishaq, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Ishaq was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Ishaq in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Ishaq a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,994 - with a total of 34 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Ishaq -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Ishaq. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 108 Americans who bear this name. And these 108 men and boys named Ishaq live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and New York. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Ishaq lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Ishaq and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Ishaq relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 202,637 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Ishaq.

Ishaq has 5 letters 
and begins with an I

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 five letters, the name Ishaq is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ishaq

If your name is Ishaq 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...

This is how you spell the name Ishaq

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ishaq, you can simply say:

Igloo

Sun

Hat

Apple

Queen

This is how the name Ishaq is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ishaq in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ishaq

Ishaq

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ishaq

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ishaq is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

I
S
H
A
Q

Have you ever waved the name Ishaq

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
Q

Beeping like crazy...

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. Ishaq sounds like this: