Given name
Yissachar
“he will be rewarded”
Yissachar is a variant of Yishachar. One Hebrew interpretation is “he will be rewarded.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yissachar is a variant of Yishachar. One Hebrew interpretation is “he will be rewarded.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yissachar is a variant of Yishachar. An origin associated with Yishachar is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yissachar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 35 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yissachar’s family of names
Yissachar has a related form in Yishachar. In Italian usage, Yissachar has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Иссакар. In Italian usage, Yissachar has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Иссахар.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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