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Yitzchak

About 1,458 American babies have been named Yitzchak since 1968, most of them around 2022. In 2025 it ranked 2,480th. About 1,400 Yitzchaks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Yitzchak

By the numbers

Total US births
1,458
Estimated living today
1,400
Median age today
15
Peak year
2022
Best rank
2,325th
Rank in 2025
2,480th
First recorded
1968

How old the living Yitzchaks are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,458 babies given the name since 1968, about 1,400 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 790 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Yitzchak is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Yitzchak is most concentrated in New York (9.4×), New Jersey (8.9×), Maryland (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2022

The most popular boys’ names the year Yitzchak peaked:

All the names of 2022

Yitzchak elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Yitzchak 11 3,830th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Yitzchak against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.