Isaac
In 2025 Isaac comes in at #47 nationally, sitting where it has sat for years. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 331,508 bearers and counting.
What Isaac carries
Isaac · Hebrew
“laughter”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Isaac’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Isaac, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Isaac since 1880
Isaac peaked in 2007 at #41; #47 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Isaac is most common
Isaac is most common in District of Columbia: 0.91% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Massachusetts (0.61%) and Maryland (0.6%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Isaac
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Isaiah
#57 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ivan
#163 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jacob
#43 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Hannah
#56 in 2025 · Hebrew
Caleb
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Gabriel
#37 in 2025 · Hebrew
Nathan
#63 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Isaac
How common is Isaac today?
In 2025 Isaac comes in at #47 nationally, sitting where it has sat for years. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Isaac mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “laughter”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Isaac?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Isaiah, Ivan and Jacob, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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