Issak — boys' name
489 babies named Issak in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Issak was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Issak in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Issak
The Social Security Administration has registered 489 babies named Issak between 1990 and 2022, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Issak currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 33 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Issak performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Issak shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 88 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Issak in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Issak in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 489 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Issak at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Issak popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1990
- Peak year (2008)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
489 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 33 births in a single year.
Issak by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 242 births that decade — 49% of Issak's all-time total
Issak decade highlights
- Peak decade 242 births
- Runner-up 156 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Issak's strongest decade
242 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Issak by state
Where Issak concentrates geographically — total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 88 | 18.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 20 | 4.1% |
88 of 489 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 18.0% of nationwide
- Texas 4.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 18.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1990–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.