Name Awesome

Itzhak

Boys' name

To laugh, through יצחק

Itzhak has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2011, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Itzhak, 2021

1 in 678,000

Itzhak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0246818801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Itzhak: meaning, origin, and history

To laugh, through יצחק

Hebrew

What Itzhak means

Itzhak belongs to the name family reached through Itzhak → יצחק. Its meaning is “to laugh”.

Origin, language, and formation

Itzhak is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Itzhak comes through Hebrew יצחק.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isaac and יצחק.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 boys were recorded with the name Itzhak between 1996 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2011; its best national rank was #9,583 in 1996.

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 Itzhak?

Itzhak had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Itzhak 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Itzhak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Itzhaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Itzhak was born before 2011 — so the typical Itzhak is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Itzhak 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
—
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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (7)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,583
1996

Spellings of Itzhak

Itzhak is not the most common spelling — Izaak is, with 40.3% against Itzhak's 0.63%.

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.

Itzhak around the world

Where Itzhak 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.

  • France
    2003–2003
    #3,950
    in 2003

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Itzhak 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
#9,583
1996
Peak year
2011
7 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Itzhak

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

ItzanItzaelItzelItziarVishakYitzhakIshakItzaeSarthakArshakItzcoatlYitzchak

Sibling names for Itzhak

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

Explore around Itzhak

Top names of 2011, Itzhak's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 1996Boys' names starting with I