Isacc
Masculine · “Hebrew "he laughs”
Isaac is the only patriarch who kept his name. Abram became Abraham and Jacob became Israel, both renamed at turning points in their stories — Isaac was named before birth, for laughter, and the name never changed.
How old is the name Isacc?
Isacc first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Isacc alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 1,900 people named Isacc are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Isacc most popular?
Isacc peaked in 2003, reaching #1513 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 6,166 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yitzhak to Isacc
The story of Isacc
The naming pattern in Genesis is consistent and deliberate. Names are given with an explanation attached, and the explanation is a wordplay on the sound rather than a derivation — Jacob with the word for heel, Moses with the word for drawing out, Isaac with the word for laughter. What distinguishes Isaac is that his name is announced before he is born and is never revised, while his father and his son both receive new names marking a covenant or a struggle. The Hebrew form is unchanged in Jewish use; Islamic tradition knows him as Ishaq. The American figures for the Isacc spelling peak in 2003, alongside Isaac's own strong run.
Meaning
Hebrew "he laughs"
From Yitzhak, he laughs or he will laugh, from the root tsachaq. Genesis attaches the name to three separate episodes of laughter: Abraham laughs when told he will have a son at a hundred, Sarah laughs at the same news, and Sarah says afterwards that God has made laughter for her. Isacc is an American respelling with the doubled consonant moved; it carries no separate meaning.
How the name formed
- Yitzhak
- Isaac
- Isacc
Related forms: Isaac · Isaac · Ishaq · יצחק
Pronouncing Isacc
EYE-zuk
Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew Yitzhak is yits-KHAK, two syllables with the stress at the end and a back fricative English does not have.
Nicknames for Isacc
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1923
- Most boys named
- 200385 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1513reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- −47.4%10 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Isacc in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Isaac in English — spelling variant
- Isaac in Spanish — same name
- Ishaq in Arabic — same name
- יצחק in Hebrew — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Isaccs among us
people named Isacc are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Isacc
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Isacc
- #7679
- Isacc on the 2025 chart
- #47
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Isacc went to 10 boys in 2025, but Isaac, Isaak and Izaac and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 11 spellings went to 6,198, which makes it the 47th most-given boys’ name of the year — 7,632 places above the chart.
and 5 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 276 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 170,808 for Isacc itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Daran test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Isacc's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Daran climbed just as high around 1965, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Daran's path sketches the road Isacc is walking now.
Isacc sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Isacc beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Isacc in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and unusually cheerful for a patriarch's name.
- Ike and Izzy are established short forms.
- It carries a major figure of three religious traditions.
- Isaac is the standard spelling and will be substituted constantly.
- The transposed consonants invite misspelling.
- The 2000s peak dates a bearer fairly precisely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Isaccs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Isacc are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Isacc?
- Isacc is one of 6 recorded spellings. Isaac is the more common one — 5,953 births in 2025 against 10 for Isacc.
- How popular is the name Isacc in 2025?
- Isacc ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Isacc?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Isacc — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Isacc with classmates?
- Isacc will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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