Izak
Masculine · “he will laugh”
Izak is the Polish and Dutch form of Isaac, and the Hebrew name is a verb in the future tense — he will laugh.
How old is the name Izak?
Izak first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Izak alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,800 people named Izak are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Izak most popular?
Izak peaked in 2005, reaching #1411 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 2,985 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yitzchaq to Izak
The story of Izak
The laughter in Isaac's name is doubled and slightly barbed: Abraham laughs when told, Sarah laughs when she overhears, and God asks why she laughed — and she denies it. The name preserves the whole exchange. Polish and Dutch give Izak, with the z that both languages use for this sound. It reaches American records with Polish and Dutch families and, more recently, as a modern respelling.
Meaning
he will laugh
From Hebrew yitzchaq, he laughs or will laugh; Genesis has both Abraham and Sarah laugh when told they will have a son, and the child is named for it. It is one of the names the text explains outright.
How the name formed
- Yitzchaq
- Isaac
- Izak
Related forms: Izaak · Isaac · Yitzchak
Pronouncing Izak
EE-zak
Two syllables, first stressed. Polish gives ee-ZAHK.
Nicknames for Izak
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
- 1984
- Most boys named
- 2008105 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1411reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%23 in 2025, from 23
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.
Izak in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Izaak in Polish — spelling variant
- Isaac in English — same name
- Yitzchak in Hebrew — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Illinois.
Izaks among us
people named Izak are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Izak
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Izak
- #4396
- Izak on the 2025 chart
- #47
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Izak went to 23 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 — 4,349 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 74,264 for Izak 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 Trung test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Izak's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trung climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trung's path sketches the road Izak is walking now.
Izak 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
Izak beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Izak in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that the biblical text explains in the moment it is given.
- Izzy, Zak and Ike are all ready short forms.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- Isaac is the standard English spelling and will be written for him.
- Izak, Izaak, Isaak and Isaac are all in use and only Isaac is common.
- The stress differs between the English and Polish readings.
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Masculine · #4396 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Izaks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Izak are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Izak?
- Izak is one of 6 recorded spellings. Isaac is the more common one — 5,953 births in 2025 against 23 for Izak.
- How popular is the name Izak in 2025?
- Izak ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Izak?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Izak — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Izak with classmates?
- Izak will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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