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Yitzchok

#911 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Yitzchok has been given to 5,451 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #911 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 261 recorded.

Babies named Yitzchok, 2025

1 in 12,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yitzchok: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yitzchok means

Yitzchok is a given name.

The naming story behind Yitzchok

Wikidata records Yitzchok as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q20001014, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,451 boys were recorded with the name Yitzchok between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 261 in 2025; its best national rank was #911 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,050 in 2020 to #911 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,221 in 2015 to #911 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.

How common is Yitzchok?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,700
261 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,540
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#911
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,805 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yitzchok 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,805 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yitzchok. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yitzchoks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yitzchok was born before 2010 — so the typical Yitzchok is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,451
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (1,545).

Is Yitzchok 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
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+139
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+310
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.73×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (261)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#911
2025

Spellings of Yitzchok

Yitzchok is the most-used spelling, taking 78.9% of the 6,909 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Yitzchok is used

Across 1910–2025, Yitzchok was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 5,285 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

029 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,448
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 4,000
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Yitzchok has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yitzchok around the world

Where Yitzchok 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
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Yitzchok

People whose public names include Yitzchok, 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.

Yitzchok in other languages

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

Itzhak

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

Yitzchok by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#911
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 139
Best rank ever
#911
2025
Peak year
2025
261 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,451
Count in 2025
261

Names similar to Yitzchok

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

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Names with a curve like Yitzchok

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

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Sibling names for Yitzchok

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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