boy's name

Isak

  • Gender Boy
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 1,900

France

#950

2025 births

Isak is a boy's name. In 2025 it was given to 38 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2004, when 57 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 87,252 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1979.

Isak over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

433
'70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Isak by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 6
1980s 40
1990s 175
2000s 433
2010s 299
2020s (to 2025) 154

How popular is Isak?

In 2025, Isak was given to 38 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Isak is used

France #950 40 in 2025
England & Wales #1,317 21 in 2025
United States #3,137 38 in 2025
Canada #3,356 5 in 2024

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Isak

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Isak also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Isak over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Isak in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Hebrew
Itzhak
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Isac Izaac Ishak Yitzhak

Sibling names for Isak

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Isak — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Isak

How popular is the name Isak?

In 2025, Isak was given to 38 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Isak a girl's or a boy's name?

Isak is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.

When was Isak most popular?

Isak peaked in 2004, when 57 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Isak a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Isak currently ranks #950 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.