Yitzchak
Masculine · “he will laugh”
Yitzchak is 'he will laugh' in Hebrew — and Genesis has three people laugh before he is born, which is the point of the name.
How old is the name Yitzchak?
Yitzchak first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Yitzchak alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,400 people named Yitzchak are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yitzchak most popular?
Yitzchak peaked in 2022, reaching #2325 nationally. Today it ranks #2480, 155 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tzachak to Yitzchak
The story of Yitzchak
Abraham laughs when told he will have a son at a hundred; Sarah laughs and denies it; and when the child is born Sarah says God has made laughter for her, and everyone who hears will laugh with her. The name records all of it. Yitzchak is the Hebrew form and is in current American use.
Meaning
he will laugh
From the Hebrew Yitzchak, 'he laughs' or 'he will laugh', from tzachak. Genesis has Abraham laugh, Sarah laugh, and then Sarah say God has made laughter for her — the text plays on the name three times. The Hebrew is documented.
How the name formed
- tzachak
- Yitzchak
Related forms: יצחק · Isaac · Itzik
Pronouncing Yitzchak
YITS-khak
Two syllables, stress on the first. The ch is a throat sound as in Bach; Hebrew stresses the last.
Nicknames for Yitzchak
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
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 202261 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2325reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%54 in 2025, from 54
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.
Yitzchak in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- יצחק in Hebrew — transliteration
- Isaac in English — related form
- Itzik in Yiddish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, Maryland.
Yitzchaks among us
people named Yitzchak are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 31,631 born in 2025 was named Yitzchak
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Conlan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yitzchak's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Conlan climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Conlan's path sketches the road Yitzchak is walking now.
Yitzchak 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
Where Yitzchak is headed
Yitzchak should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yitzchak beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yitzchak in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the text plays on the name three separate times is a first-rate piece of writing.
- The he-will-laugh meaning is unusually warm and human.
- Isaac is available as an English equivalent with a large record.
- The ch is mispronounced by nearly all English speakers.
- Isaac is what English speakers will assume.
- It reads as specifically Orthodox Jewish.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yitzchaks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Yitzchak are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yitzchak in 2025?
- Yitzchak ranks #2480 among US boy names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yitzchak?
- About 1 in every 31,631 US boys born in 2025 was named Yitzchak — 54 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yitzchak with classmates?
- Yitzchak will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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