The name Isaac comes from the Hebrew name Yitzchaq, meaning ‘he will laugh, he will rejoice’. This name was occasionally used during the Middle Ages, but became more widespread after the Protestant Reformation.
Isaac is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The first name Isaac is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #33 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Isaac, accounting for approximately 0.50 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 303,249 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Isaac. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
The name Isaac comes from the Hebrew name Yitzchaq, meaning ‘he will laugh, he will rejoice’. This name was occasionally used during the Middle Ages, but became more widespread after the Protestant Reformation.
Since the 1990s,... the popularity of Isaac is on the rise again in the U.S..
Isaac Hanson (*1980)
Isaac Hanson is an American musician from Oklahoma. Together with his two younger brothers Taylor and Zac he formed the band Hanson. With their debut single 'MMMBop' (1997) they immediately landed a chart hit. Isaac played guitar, bass and piano and shared responsibility for the vocals his two brothers. The Hanson brothers still make music together, but Isaac also had solo projects.
Isaac Hayes (1942 - 2008)
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American soul and funk musician. With his distinctive bass-baritone voice and chanting, the soul singer was a precursor to rap and hip-hop. He supported the self-confidence of the African-American population in the U.S. with demonstrative confessions for the black civil rights activists. He therefore became known as the 'Black Moses'.
Isaac Mizrahi (*1961)
Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer and television presenter. He studied fashion design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. His successful career began in 1987, when showing his first collection in a Bergdorf Goodman retail store. Later he also worked for Chanel and QVC and founded his own label. From the 90s, the designer also turned towards television and had various guest appearances on shows such as 'Sex and the City' (1993) or 'Ugly Betty' (2008).
Isaac Newton (16421727)
Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist. He wrote the 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica', in which he described universal gravitation with his law of gravitation and formulated the laws of motion, thus setting the fundament for classical mechanics. That is why he is commonly known as the discoverer of gravitational force today.
When you hear the name Isaac, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Isaac? Are you also called Isaac? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is the number of the minor planet Isaac Newton. It was discovered in 1986 by H. Debehogne at La Silla Observatory in Chile.
social justice are the Isaacs Houses. It is a public housing project for people of low-to-moderate incomes. You can find it on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
at Isaac Hale Beach Park which is located on the southeastern shore of Hawaii. Besides as a surf spot it also serves as oceanfront park and boat launch.
you can see Great Isaac Lighthouse on the small Bahamian island of Great Isaac Cay. It was erected in 1859 and measures about 151 feet.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Isaac is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Isaac has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2013 the name even made it to rank #30 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Isaac was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 6,691 boys were born and given the name Isaac by their parents. That puts Isaac at #44 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1968 - only 427 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 353 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Isaac. Because: There are men and boys named Isaac in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Isaac is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Utah, where Isaac ranks on position 54. The greatest chance of meeting Isaac, however, is in Nevada, where one in 255 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 551 men and boys and in Connecticut, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,141 men and boys for their name before you once get Isaac as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Isaac is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.
If your name is Isaac and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Isaac, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Apple
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Isaac
Isaac
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
S
A
A
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
S
A
A
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Isaac sounds like this:
