Yitzchak
Yitzchak was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,514 among boys’ names; 1,458 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Yitzchak and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yitzchak by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yitzchak mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yitzchak is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Transliteration of Hebrew יִצְחָק
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yitzchak?
#2,514 among boys’ names, 2025
Yitzchak rose from #3,224 in 2015 to #2,514 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 31.6 per million.
61 babies in 2022, the peak
Yitzchak peaked in 2022, when 61 boys were given it, #2,351 among boys’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,514 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 54 | #2,522 | 31.3 |
| 2023 | 54 | #2,507 | 31.6 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,351 | 34.9 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,859 | 25.2 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,581 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,763 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,844 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,373 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,779 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,224 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,748 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,957 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,951 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,745 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,726 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,523 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,530 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,247 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,216 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,085 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,878 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,106 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,013 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,311 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,727 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,272 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 27 | #3,013 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,446 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,285 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,841 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,281 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,810 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,739 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,216 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,455 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,085 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,072 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,066 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,262 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,768 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,822 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,897 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,686 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,853 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,614 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,396 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,210 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,115 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,408 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,450 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,214 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,590 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,740 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yitzchak a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yitzchak has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yitzchak: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yitzchak, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,458 Americans ever recorded as Yitzchak. The median Yitzchak alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 970 people named Yitzchak (0 women and girls, 970 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 73 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 248 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 519 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 586 |
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 Yitzchak born?
The states with the most babies named Yitzchak are New Jersey, New York and Maryland, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey and Maryland are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 22 | #376 | 6.1× |
| New York | 19 | #766 | 8.1× |
| Maryland | 6 | #805 | 0.8× |
Where Yitzchak is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yitzchak is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 8.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Yitzchak 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,909 babies since 1880, Yitzchak is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 315 babies (17%), again the second 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 Yitzchak
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 Yitzchak and names like it
- Compare Yitzchak and YitzchokBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYitzchak peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yitzchak since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Yitzchak: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Yitzchak.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yitzchak alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.