Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Issak isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Issak through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 495
- 495 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,761 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −62%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,761 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 33 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 495 as a first name in 2020; 367 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Issak’s family of names
In Greek usage, Issak as a surname is a transliteration of Ισσάκ.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
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