Ishaaq
A boys’ name of Arabic origin, meaning he will laugh; Arabic form of Isaac.
Ishaaq by the numbers
In 2025, 39 babies in England and Wales were named Ishaaq. In the US, 8 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 14 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
Other names that come from Isaac
Like Ishaaq, each of these traces back to Isaac: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Issache laughs; variant spelling of Isaac432 in the US (2017)
- Yitzchokhe laughs; a form of Isaac172 in the US (2017)
- Iveyarcher; diminutive form of Ivy or Isaac118 in the US (2017)
- Isaakhe will laugh; a form of Isaac107 in the US (2017)
- Izaakhe laughs; a variant spelling of Isaac11 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ikehe will laugh; diminutive of Isaac51 in the US (2017)
- Isache will laugh; a variant spelling of Isaac39 in the US (2017)
- Izakhe laughs; a form of Isaac9 in England and Wales (2025)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ishaaq. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ishaansun or offering of the sun79 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ishaqhe laughs; arabic form of isaac53 in England and Wales (2025)
- Isaaqhe laughs; form of isaac14 in England and Wales (2025)
- Is'Haaqhe laughs; arabic form of isaac9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ishraqdawn light, radiance3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Isaache will laugh8,807 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Ishaaq
Names that are said the same way as Ishaaq, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Ishaka form of Isaac4 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Ishaaq
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