Izac
Masculine · “Hebrew Yitzchak”
Jewish tradition calls Genesis 22 the Binding, the Akedah, and looks at Isaac. Christian tradition calls it the Sacrifice of Isaac and looks at Abraham. The same chapter, two names, and the difference in emphasis is entirely in the title.
How old is the name Izac?
Izac first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Izac alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 800 people named Izac are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Izac most popular?
Izac peaked in 2002, reaching #2337 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 7,377 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yitzchak to Izac
The story of Izac
Genesis 22 has Abraham told to take his son to Moriah and offer him, and stopped at the last moment. Jewish tradition names the episode the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac, after the single verb describing Abraham tying him to the altar, a word used nowhere else in the Bible. The rabbinic and liturgical tradition attends closely to Isaac: his age, which the midrash puts at thirty-seven, his consent, and in some readings his death and revival. The passage is read on Rosh Hashanah and the ram's horn recalls the substitute. Christian tradition, reading Isaac as a type of Christ, calls it the Sacrifice and attends to Abraham's obedience. Neither title is a translation of the other, and each directs the reader to a different person in the same story.
Meaning
Hebrew Yitzchak, he laughs
Izac is a respelling of Isaac, Hebrew Yitzchak, from a verb meaning to laugh, generally read as he laughs or may God smile. The z replaces the s, which is how the letter is actually said in English. The peak of this spelling is 2002.
How the name formed
- Yitzchak
- Isaac
- Izac
Related forms: Isaac · Yitzchak · Ishaq
Pronouncing Izac
EYE-zik
Two syllables, stress on the first. Izac and Isaac are homophones; the z writes the sound the s actually has in English.
Nicknames for Izac
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
- 1989
- Most boys named
- 200244 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2337reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- −12.5%7 in 2025, from 8
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.
Izac in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Isaac in English — spelling variant
- Yitzchak in Hebrew — same name
- Ishaq in Arabic — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Izacs among us
people named Izac are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Izac
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Izac
- #9714
- Izac on the 2025 chart
- #47
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Izac went to 7 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 — 9,667 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 244,011 for Izac 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 Catalino test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Izac's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Catalino climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Catalino's path sketches the road Izac is walking now.
Izac 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
Izac beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Izac in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ike and Zac are both usable short forms.
- The spelling matches the English pronunciation.
- The underlying name has three thousand years of history.
- Isaac is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- The z will be read as an error.
- It will be corrected by most systems.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Izacs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Izac are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Izac?
- Izac is one of 6 recorded spellings. Isaac is the more common one — 5,953 births in 2025 against 7 for Izac.
- How popular is the name Izac in 2025?
- Izac ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Izac?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Izac — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Izac with classmates?
- Izac will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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