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Issachar

#6,597 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly man of hire or there is reward

Issachar has been given to 162 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #6,597 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Issachar, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Issachar: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly man of hire or there is reward

Hebrew

What Issachar means

Issachar may mean “man of hire or there is reward”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Biblical Hebrew יִשָּׂשכָר (“Issachar”), a son of Jacob.

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Origin, language, and formation

Issachar is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Issachar comes through Biblical Hebrew יִשָּׂשכָר.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Issachar is pronounced /ˈɪ.səˌkɑɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 162 boys were recorded with the name Issachar between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,865 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,818 in 2020 to #6,597 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,293 in 2015 to #6,597 in 2025.

How common is Issachar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,597
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Issachar 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Issachar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Issachars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Issachar was born before 2017 — so the typical Issachar is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
162
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.8% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Issachar 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
+1,378
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,221
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,696
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.0%
Peak was 2019 (20)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,865
2019

Where Issachar is used

Across 1910–2025, Issachar was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

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. Issachar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Issachar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,597
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,221
Best rank ever
#4,865
2019
Peak year
2019
20 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
162
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Issachar

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

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Sibling names for Issachar

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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