How Many People Are Named Issac?

21,727

people named Issac are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 15,730 people in the US has this name

Based on 24,571 babies named Issac in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,557

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#655

See the top 100

Peak Year

2008

820 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: IE-zək
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of ISAAC.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Issac in English. Counting Issac and these spellings together, about 321,776 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

SahakIsaakYitzhakIsaacIsakIzaäkIisakkiItzhakIzsákIsaakuSjaakSjakieIkeIikka

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.1%
Male
99.9%

Almost all of the babies given the name Issac (99.9%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Issac alive today is about 24 years old, and 73% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 31 in 2025.

Under 30 15,770
72.6%
30 to 59 4,816
22.2%
60 and over 1,142
5.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Issac first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2008, to 820 babies. In 2025, 258 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Issac has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #376, in 2008. In 2025 it ranked #915.

Boys
Rank in 2025#915
Best rank#376 (2008)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#406 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Issac alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Issac were born in California than in any other state: about 4,420 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Issac was given 2.8 times as often in Mississippi, 2.5 times in New Mexico and 1.7 times in California.

California 4,420
Texas 3,003
New York 1,167
Florida 831
Illinois 765
Georgia 611
Arizona 589
North Carolina 492
Ohio 485
Michigan 414
Tennessee 414
Washington 389
Pennsylvania 389
Alabama 346
Colorado 328
Mississippi 321
Louisiana 319
Missouri 304
New Mexico 277
Indiana 270
Virginia 266
New Jersey 246
Kentucky 214
Oklahoma 199
South Carolina 189
Oregon 179
Nevada 158
Kansas 155
Utah 146
Arkansas 144
Wisconsin 124
Maryland 109
Minnesota 102
West Virginia 101
Massachusetts 79
Iowa 62
Nebraska 26
Idaho 25
Maine 16
District of Columbia 10
Montana 5
Connecticut 5
Hawaii 5

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