Issak
Issak was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,757 among boys’ names; 495 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Issak by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Issak?
#12,757 among boys’ names, 2025
Issak fell from #9,063 in 2015 to #12,757 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 2.9 per million.
33 babies in 2008, the peak
Issak peaked in 2008, when 33 boys were given it, #3,373 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,757 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,098 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,465 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,329 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,216 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,862 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,281 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,074 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,063 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,796 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 18 | #5,046 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,572 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,545 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,661 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,643 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,373 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,825 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,753 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,482 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,678 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,660 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,488 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,546 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,657 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,441 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,906 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,573 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,707 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,199 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,836 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,722 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,641 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Issak a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Issak has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Issak: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Issak, and how old are they?
An estimated 488 Americans named Issak and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 495 people named Issak (3 women and girls, 492 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Issak?
Issak is a less common spelling of Isaac: SSA has recorded 495 Issak and 332,292 Isaac since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 366,319 babies since 1880, Issak is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 6,334 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Issak
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Issak and names like it
- Compare Issak and IsaacBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIssak peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Issak since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Issak.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Issak alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.