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Isaak

#2,693 in 2025Boys' name

He laughs

Isaak has been given to 4,271 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #2,693 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 218 recorded.

Babies named Isaak, 2025

1 in 69,100

Isaak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isaak: meaning, origin, and history

He laughs

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isaak means

Isaak means “he laughs”, associated with Yiṣḥāq.

Origin, language, and formation

Isaak is used in German.

Isaak comes through Latin Isaāc, Ancient Greek Ἰσαᾱ́κ and Biblical Hebrew יִצְחָק.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Isaak is pronounced /ˈiː.zaˌak/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,271 boys were recorded with the name Isaak between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 218 in 2009; its best national rank was #799 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,917 in 2020 to #2,693 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,409 in 2015 to #2,693 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Isaak?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 35,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,693
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isaak sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isaak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isaaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isaak was born before 2007 — so the typical Isaak is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,271
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (1,880).

Is Isaak rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−293
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−776
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,284
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.0%
Peak was 2009 (218)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#799
2001

Spellings of Isaak

Isaak is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 47.0% against Isaak's 0.61%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Isaak is used

Across 2016–2025, Isaak was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 26,166 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 16,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Ohio1 in 33,333
  5. 5Washington1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Isaak around the world

Where Isaak ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2025
    #707
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Isaak

People whose public names include Isaak, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Isaak in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Isaak. Linked forms have their own page here.

IsacIsakIzakIsaacIshakIssacIzaacIzaakItzhakYitzhakIiroIsachIzsákIsaachIsaccoIisakki

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Isaak by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,693
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 776
Best rank ever
#799
2001
Peak year
2009
218 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,271
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Isaak

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

IsaelIsaccIsacIsaihIsaiIzaakIsadoreIsaIsakIsaiaIsaiasIsayahIsaihaIsabelIsaisIsahiIsauroIsamuIsamIsaahIsairIsaackIsaicIsaac

Names with a curve like Isaak

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Isaak, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PranavJayvonJavenSebastienJakubSabastianSavionKamrenTavionAdityaTrystanKamron

Sibling names for Isaak

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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