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Ishak

Boys' name

From Arabic إِسْحَاقَ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Ishak has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ishak, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ishak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ishak: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic إِسْحَاقَ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Ishak means

Ishak is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ishak is used in Indonesian and Malay. Its origins include Arabic.

Ishak comes through Arabic إِسْحَاقَ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sehak.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Ishak is pronounced /ˈis.hak/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 boys were recorded with the name Ishak between 2004 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,452 in 2023.

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 Ishak?

Ishak had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ishak 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ishak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ishaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ishak was born before 2018 — so the typical Ishak is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Ishak 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (11)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,452
2023

Spellings of Ishak

Ishak is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 75.0% against Ishak's 0.02%.

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.

Ishak around the world

Where Ishak 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2025
    #439
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

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.

Ishak by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,452
2023
Peak year
2023
11 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ishak

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

IshirIshayIshankIshaaqIshvikIshaqIshimweIshawnIshraqIshantIshmilIshamIshmelIshanthIshanItzhakIsharIshmailIshmanIshamelYitzhakIshmealSarthakIshi

Sibling names for Ishak

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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