Izak
Izak was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,448 among boys’ names; 1,841 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Izak and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Izak by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Izak mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Izak is “a male given name, equivalent to English Isaac”
From Latin Isaac, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq).
/ˈi.zak/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Izak?
#4,448 among boys’ names, 2025
Izak fell from #2,657 in 2015 to #4,448 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 13.5 per million.
105 babies in 2008, the peak
Izak peaked in 2008, when 105 boys were given it, #1,538 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,448 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,481 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,751 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,492 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,324 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,680 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,837 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,068 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,150 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,131 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,657 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,241 | 31.2 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,121 | 33.3 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,277 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,088 | 33.7 |
| 2010 | 81 | #1,810 | 42.2 |
| 2009 | 103 | #1,576 | 51.9 |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,538 | 51.5 |
| 2007 | 91 | #1,676 | 43.8 |
| 2006 | 75 | #1,832 | 36.5 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,422 | 52.1 |
| 2004 | 76 | #1,689 | 38.3 |
| 2003 | 77 | #1,632 | 39.0 |
| 2002 | 80 | #1,547 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,550 | 40.1 |
| 2000 | 76 | #1,565 | 38.7 |
| 1999 | 53 | #1,865 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,796 | 29.3 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,849 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,626 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,522 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,880 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,895 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,379 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,250 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,133 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,494 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,951 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,419 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,733 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Izak a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Izak has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Izak: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Izak, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,841 Americans ever recorded as Izak. The median Izak alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,585 people named Izak (2 women and girls, 1,583 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,656 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 478 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Izak born?
The states with the most babies named Izak are California, Texas and Indiana, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 214 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 175 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 29 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 28 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 21 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Izak with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,133 babies since 1880, Izak is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 132 babies (17%), again the third 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 Izak
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 Izak and names like it
- Compare Izak and IzaakBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIzak peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Izak since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Izak: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Izak.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Izak alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.